
Beyond fear's farthest frontiers... 'Trembling violently, Jones clung to the railing in front of the curtained niche. He almost reached out to stop Orabona when he saw the curtain beginning to swing aside, but some conflicting impulse held him back. The foreigner smiled triumphantly. "Behold!" Jones reeled in spite of his grip on the railing. "God! — great God!" Fully ten feet high despite a shambling, crouching attitude expressive of infinite cosmic malignancy, a monstrosity of unbelievable horror was shown starting forward from cyclopean ivory throne covered with grotesque carvings. In the central pair of its six legs it bore a crushed, flattened, distorted, bloodless thing, riddled with a million punctures...Only the mangled head of the victim revealed that it represented something once human...' from THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM Contents: • Lovecraft's "Revisions" by August Derleth • The Horror in the Museum by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft • The Crawling Chaos by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft • Four O'Clock by Sonia Greene and H. P. Lovecraft • Winged Death by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft • The Loved Dead by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft • The Ghost-Eater by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft • The Diary of Alonzo Typer by H. P. Lovecraft and William Lumley • The Electric Executioner by Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft • The Mound by Zealia Bishop