The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.
They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism.
curator of a local museum
but when I did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more closely locked barrier
which I felt much averse from showing to other eyes
and had frequently been resorted to
had not sudden death seized him
pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.
