Inexplicably, it smiles as it slithers through the bars of the window, a slow silvery comet staining the air with a trail of luminous symbols, viscid geometries, larval letterforms.
Breathing is no longer necessary: Susie realizes this belatedly. When her body is discovered her mouth is open. In repose she appears to be glancing out the window. At midnight the sky of Providence is tinctured with hues of the morgue and the stars. To the eyes of the dead this is a scroll of endless night. with symbols and the language of Time etched on the aethers, magically descriptive, cosmic in implication.
Примечания
1
Nash refers here to Lovecraft's tales «Dagon», 'The Hound', 'The Rats in the Walls', 'Arthur Jermyn' and «Hypnos», all recently published in
2
In this paragraph Nash refers to 'The Festival' and 'Imprisioned with the Pharaohs'.
3
Nash is referring to 'The Music of Erich Zann' and 'The Unnamable'.
4
Farnsworth Wright, editor of
5
'The Tomb' and 'The Outsider'.
6
Lovecraft's original name for the island in 'The Call of Cthulhu'.
7
'The Terrible Old Man', 'The Moon-Bog', «He» and 'The Horror at Red Hook'.
8
'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Colour out of Space',
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'The Colour out of Space' was published in
10
August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei and Frank Belknap Long.
11
'The Dunwich Horror'.
12
Dunwich is a submerged town off the Suffolk coast.
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14
'The Whisperer in Darkness'.
