H. P. LOVECRAFT

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FIRST PUBLISHED IN
1928

PREPARED AND MODERNIZED BY OBSCURA CLASSICS

“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival … a survival of a hugely remote period when … consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity … forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds….”

—Algernon Blackwood.

“The ring of worshipers moved in endless bacchanale between the ring of bodies and the ring of fire.”1

1 Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.