Creep Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1

I saw that lake, asleep and still;
While in the lurid sky there rode
A gibbous moon that glow’d and glow’d.
I saw the stretching marshy shore,
And the foul things those marshes bore:
Lizards and snakes convuls’d and dying;
Ravens and vampires putrefying;
All these, and hov’ring o’er the dead,
Narcophagi that on them fed.

The Nightmare Lake

HP Lovecraft

Mike in Florida

“Mister Coordinator,” General Adams said, formally. “Based upon reconnaissance of the affected are, the Boston area is clear of adult Shadow. That is the last major metropolitan area to be cleared in the Flood zone.”