....read the whole frightfully good tale online...the first lines seem prophetic in light of todays vistas of terror...
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm*snip*
The Call of Cthulhu...written in 1926 by H. P. Lovecraft
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds... - Algernon Blackwood
I. The Horror In Clay
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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...this story in LBN about..the lost city of Atlantis...off the coast of Spain is what prompted me to find this awesome Lovecraft Online Library....thought I'd share it with everyone tonight...enjoy!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm