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to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position and safety of a new dark age. human race form when

George Gammell Angell, Semitic Languages in Brown Rhode Island. Professor Angell an authority on ancient inscriptions, resorted to by the heads of prominent passing at the age of ninetytwo may Locally, interest was intensified by the of death. The professor had been stricken boat; falling suddenly, as witnesses by a nautical-looking of the queer dark formed ”Yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature [...] A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.“ HPL: The Call of Cthulhu

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of the heart, induced by the brisk hill by so elderly a man, was At the time I saw no reason to but latterly I am inclined to wond of files and boxes to Much of the material which published by the American

this apparent disturbance of an old man’s peace of mind. The bas-relief was a obviously of modern origin. Its designs, however, were regularity which seemed and collections of my uncle, failed in any way to identify this particular species, was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole most shockingly frightful. Behind the figure was a vague suggestion of a Cyclopean architectural background. The writing accompanying a stack of press cuttings, in Professor Angell’s most recent hand; and made no pretence to literary style. What seemed to be

Picure of an Octopus by Qijin Xu

Pressure increases at approximately one atmosphere for every 10 meters meaning that some areas of the deep sea can reach pressures of above 1,000 atmospheres. This amount of pressure is too extreme for most of the bigger marine organism.

that live in the depths of the oceans have to live under inconceivably harsh conditions. To survive the high pressure and the lack of food and light, most creatures living in the deepest parts of the oceans are very small. Bigger creatures are usually living in more shallow parts of the sea, but those who live in the deep sea have unique surviving techniques. The deep sea frogfish (or anglerfish) for example, has a glowing stick on his head to hunt. Small fish are drawn to the light and come closer. When they are close enough, the frogfish reaches out and snaps at the fish. We don‘t know much about the creatures living in the deepest parts of the deep sea, as they are hard to examine. most of them can‘t be brought to the surface, as they would explode due to the pressure difference.