| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: at that instant. The whippoorwills continued their irregular pulsation,
and the men of Dunwich braced themselves tensely against some
imponderable menace with which the atmosphere seemed surcharged.
Without warning came those deep, cracked, raucous vocal sounds
which will never leave the memory of the stricken group who heard
them. Not from any human throat were they born, for the organs
of man can yield no such acoustic perversions. Rather would one
have said they came from the pit itself, had not their source
been so unmistakably the altar-stone on the peak. It is almost
erroneous to call them sounds at all, since so much of their ghastly,
infra-bass timbre spoke to dim seats of consciousness and terror
The Dunwich Horror |
The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: we were surrounded by a horde of black men. The Princess's
guard fought nobly to the end, but they were soon overcome
and slain. Only Dejah Thoris and I were spared.
When she realized that she was in the clutches of the
black pirates, she attempted to take her own life, but one
of the blacks tore her dagger from her, and then they bound
us both so that we could not use our hands.
"The fleet continued north after capturing us. There were
about twenty large battleships in all, besides a number of
small swift cruisers. That evening one of the smaller
cruisers that had been far in advance of the fleet returned
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