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(Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston)

“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a survival of a hugely remote period when… consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity… forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of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

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Written: August-September 1926

First Published in Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 2 (February 1928), Pages 159-78, 287