

Triumphantly I watched as he tore his eyes from their sockets and ran shrieking into the shadows, wailing maniacally that the end was upon us all. There, I showed him the THING and detailed the full extent of my plans. How had he survived the stockades, the icy waters, and the knives I delivered so enthusiastically into his back? How had he returned, time and time again, to rouse the townsfolk with his wild speculations and prophecies?įinally, resigned to his uncommon corporeal resilience I lured him to the dig. But doing so proved maddeningly impossible.


This filthy, toothless miscreant boasted an uncanny knowledge of my ambitions and prognosticated publicly that, left unchecked, I would soon unleash doom upon the world. Excavations beneath the manor were well underway, when a particularly ragged indigent arrived in the hamlet.
