The Abyss (fiction)

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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.

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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

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