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* tomes: ''[[Necronomicon]]'' and ''[[Book of Eibon]]'' (name-dropped) | * tomes: ''[[Necronomicon]]'' and ''[[Book of Eibon]]'' (name-dropped) | ||
* deity: [[Nyaghoggua]] | * deity: [[Nyaghoggua]] | ||
* race: [[ | * race: [[Adumbrali]] | ||
* race: [[Seeker]] | * race: [[Seeker]] | ||
* artifact: [[Shining Polyhedron]] | * artifact: [[Shining Polyhedron]] | ||
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* character(?): [[Yste]] | * character(?): [[Yste]] | ||
* location: [[Nameless Dimension of Blue Haze]] | * location: [[Nameless Dimension of Blue Haze]] | ||
===Keeper Comments=== | ===Keeper Comments=== | ||
Latest revision as of 07:19, 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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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: 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
Keeper Comments
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