"There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things ... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall."
"Amid these hushed throngs I followed my voiceless guides; jostled by elbows that seemed preternaturally soft, and pressed by chests and stomachs that seemed abnormally pulpy;"
"It was a silent, shocking descent, and I observed after a horrible interval that the walls and steps were changing in nature, as if chiselled out of the solid rock. What mainly troubled me was that the myriad footfalls made no sound and set up no echoes."
"Amid
these hushed throngs I followed my voiceless guides; jostled by elbows
that seemed preternaturally soft, and pressed by chests and stomachs
that seemed abnormally pulpy;"
"It
was a silent, shocking descent, and I observed after a horrible
interval that the walls and steps were changing in nature, as if
chiselled out of the solid rock. What mainly troubled me was that the
myriad footfalls made no sound and set up no echoes."
BYAKHEE "There
flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things
... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor
decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall." H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival