„All dead. Edith, Stanton, Thora – dead – or worse. And Edith in the Moon Pool – with them – drawn by what you saw on the moonpath – that has put its brand upon me – and follows me!”
As Dr. David Throckmartin gasps out the horrible climax to the story of his expedition among the ruins of an ancient Pacific civilization, Dr. Walter Goodwin listens to his incredible tale, certain that the great scientist has gone mad. For he has told of how his young bride Edith and other members of his exploring party were spirited away by the unearthly androgynous Dweller of the Moon Pool – a „thing” that arises at the full moon from the wailed ruins of an ancient Polynesian culture and manifests itself amid the faint chanting of voices, a drifting, undulating, crystalline chiming, and a glittering cluster
of palely colored lights. Its embrace induces feelings of both rapture and terror in its prey, a state that Throckmartin describes was „as though the icy soul of evil and the fiery… (tovább)
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Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1919
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