“Certainly, there was Noth’g butt ye liveliest Awfullness in That which H. rais’d upp from What he cou’d gather onlie a Part of.”

Then, horribly supplementing rather than displacing this image, there came a recollection of those ancient lingering rumors anent the burned and twisted thing found in the fields a week after the Curwen raid. Charles Ward had once told the doctor what old Slocum said of that object; that it was neither thoroughly human, nor wholly allied to any animal which Pawtuxet folk had ever seen or read about.