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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: of the second Arkham horror -- the horror that to me eclipsed
the plague itself. Christchurch Cemetery was the scene of a terrible
killing; a watchman having been clawed to death in a manner not
only too hideous for description, but raising a doubt as to the
human agency of the deed. The victim had been seen alive considerably
after midnight -- the dawn revealed the unutterable thing. The
manager of a circus at the neighbouring town of Bolton was questioned,
but he swore that no beast had at any time escaped from its cage.
Those who found the body noted a trail of blood leading to the
receiving tomb, where a small pool of red lay on the concrete
just outside the gate. A fainter trail led away toward the woods,
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