Couverture de Weird Tales, janvier 1927 — Popular Fiction · Public domain · Commons
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“The nightmare horde slithered away, led by the abominable naked phosphorescent thing that now strode insolently bearing in its arms the glassy-eyed corpse of the corpulent old man.” There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead. —Arthur Machen. Not many weeks ago, on a street corner in the village of Pascoag, Rhode Island, a tall, h …
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Version transcrite — Weird Tales, janvier 1927 (vol. 9, n° 1). (Le numéro dont Wikisource donne le texte ; ce n’est pas toujours la première parution.)
Ce que ce texte contient
Thématiques — Le culte, Le racisme de Lovecraft
Époques — Les années 1920