The Cthulhu Mythos MEGAPACK ®: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: mythos, horror, weird tales, cthulhu, dark fantasy
ISBN: 9781434448903
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2012-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Dorman was, at first, reluctant to agree but permission was eventually given and we began to drift more rapidly northward. Ahead of us, the ocean floor sloped downward at an increasing angle and the general topography of the undersea terrain became more strange so that Conlon was forced to admit there was something not quite right in the way odd protrusions assumed domelike shapes with the hint of shattered pillars and marble columns lying at angles all around them. Curiously, I felt more at ease on seeing these artefacts which spoke of them being manmade rather than natural fabrications for if, as they suggested, they were of marble, gleaming whitely in the light, they formed no part of the alien, gray city of Yuth.

Here and there were isolated time-shattered columns and we decided that, once we had taken a look beyond the limestone shelf, we would pick up one of these objects and take it to the surface where we could examine it at our leisure.

Less than five minutes later a long, almost straight line of darkness appeared directly in front of us, stretching away in an unbroken line in both directions. We knew immediately what it was we were seeing the edge of the shallows around the islands. Beyond, lay the dark abyss whose depths we did not know.

I think we both held our breaths, sitting forward in our seats, as we stared through the toughened glass of the porthole, straining our vision to make out details in the single beam that shone downward. The light touched the edge of the shelf and then we had crossed over it and only an inky blackness confronted us. There was now a much more powerful current tugging at the bathysphere, pushing it forward on the cable and for a while we found ourselves swinging helplessly like a pendulum, unable to control our movements.

After a while the swinging ceased and with the motion of the bathysphere stabilized we were able to give the signal for the metal sphere to be lowered. To one side of us, the looming rock wall ascended slowly with vague outcroppings, which showed eerily in the light. Despite the slowness of our descent into the gloom, we were unable to discern much detail although there was no doubt that at some time in the far past, titanic convulsions had taken place here.

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