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Revision as of 07:18, 24 June 2022
Details
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.
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Spoilers
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 Seekers, 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: Adrumbrali
- 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
Keeper Comments
Comments to Call of Cthulhu Keepers about this fiction; Possibly how it is required reading that can aid your campaign. Keep general DISCUSSION on the talk page.
