Incipit
The Horror in the Museum 1 IT WAS languid curiosity which first brought Stephen Jones to Rogers’ Museum. Someone had told him about the queer underground place in Southwark Street across the river, where waxen things so much more horrible than the worst effigies at Madame Tussaud’s were shown, and he had strolled in one April day to see how disappointing he would find it. Oddly, he was not disappointed. There was something different and distinctive here, after all. Of course, the usual gory commonplaces were present—Landru, Doctor Crippen, Madame Demers, Rizzio, Lady Jane Grey, endless maime …
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Divinités — Rhan-Tegoth (7), Cthulhu (2), Shub-Niggurath (2), Tsathoggua (2), Azathoth (1), Yog-Sothoth (1)
Créatures — Les Grands Anciens (1), Les Maigres Bêtes de la nuit (1)
Lieux — Le Pacifique Sud (1), Le plateau de Leng (1), Yuggoth (1)
Objets — Le Necronomicon (2), Les Manuscrits pnakotiques (2), Unaussprechlichen Kulten (2), Le Livre d’Eibon (1)
Thématiques — Ce qui n’est pas une représentation
Cycles — Les révisions
Entourage — Clark Ashton Smith (1)