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'''Title:''' "The Abyss"

'''Pages:''' ~8

'''Author(s):''' [[Robert A.W. Lowndes]]

'''Originally Appeared in:'''  ''Astounding Science Stories'', 1941


==Summary==
A 1941 short story by Robert A.W. Lowndes in which a professor fascinated by the occult finds his students charging headlong into danger after a strange new member of the class is challenged to prove that hypnotism really works.


==Comments / Trivia==
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==Links== 
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* "[https://cthulhufiles.com/stories/lowndes/lowndes-the-abyss.html The Abyss]"
 
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===Synopsis===
A 1941 short story by Robert A.W. Lowndes in which a professor fascinated by the occult finds his students charging headlong into danger after a strange new member of the class is challenged to prove that hypnotism really works.  The story introduces the tome ''[[Song of Yste]]'', and the monsters [[Adumbrali]] and [[Seeker]]s, and name-drops a few tomes including the ''[[Necronomicon]]''.

===References===
* tome:  ''[[Song of Yste]]''
* tomes:  ''[[Necronomicon]]'' and ''[[Book of Eibon]]'' (name-dropped)
* deity:  [[Nyaghoggua]]
* race:  [[Adumbrali]]
* race:  [[Seeker]]
* artifact:  [[Shining Polyhedron]]
* characters:  [[Dirka]] family, whose have kept and translated the tome since prehistory
* character:  [[Jhalkanaan]] the sage
* character(?):  [[Yste]]
* location:  [[Nameless Dimension of Blue Haze]]

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