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1. Let's see, we're at S. Lat. 47, 9', W. Long. 126, 43', smack dab in the South Pacific. There's a boat here. The one surviving crewman seems rather upset; maybe it's the huge octopus dragon thing that's stampeding out of its sunken island tomb. Some people panic at the drop of hat. What story is this?
2. Well, off to merry old England. Here we are at a pleasant little madhouse at Hanwell. A man named de la Poer gibbers and scratches at the padded walls, screaming at something only he can hear. What does he hear?
3. Some people just don't know when the party's over. All but one of the guests left when the hideous corpse thing slunk in. The last guy screams in horror at the thing's rotted flesh and protruding bones. Poor schmuck doesn't realize he's looking in a mirror! What story?
4. Boston, Mass: We're in a creepy looking cellar that's been outfitted into an artist's studio. The wild-eyed painter is creating a portrait of legions of ghouls feeding on subway commuters. What was that noise? The artist draws a pistol and disappears into a deeper room. Six shots ring out. Those crazy artists. What story is this?
5. Ah, the New England countryside. An undertaker named George Birch has managed to get himself locked in a burial vault. No prob, he'll just stack the coffins and climb out through the window. Um, did that top coffin just shift? What story is this?
6. Off to Europe. We're in a squalid apartment on the top floor of a wretched building on the Rue d'Auseil, somewhere in France. A metaphysics student runs screaming from the room. What did he just experience?
7. We now return to the US, to a miserable little Massachusetts town on the Mistaktonic River. There's a destroyed farmhouse here; it looks as if something huge burst out from the inside. A group of townsfolk stands on a hill screaming at something in the sky. What is this weird place?
8. On to Vermont! A man shines his flashlight around an empty parlor, lingering on an odd, metal cylinder. He's about to leave when he notices something on the easy chair. My God, that's not a human face, is it? What horror is this?
9. We now come to Nahum Gardner's farmhouse in the Miskatonic Valley. Looks like a big old meteorite hit here. But it's strange...what kind of meteorite is soft and glows at night? What is this thing?
10. Woo-hoo! I'm at a frat house! The Psi Delta house at Brown University, to be exact. One of the frat boys suggests they go check on their neighbor, Robert Blake. He's been staring, unmoving, out his window since the power failure last night. Turns out he's dead. The authorities find one last garbled note, gibberish about the 'Shining Trapezohedron' and 'The three-lobed, burning eye.' What horror did this young man experience?
11. Back to another madhouse, the Arkham Sanitarium. A patient named Edward Derby sits reading. He's calm and collected and does not seem like a mental patient at all. Suddenly, a visitor enters his cell and shoots him six times in the head. But the visitor was his best friend, Dan! What story is this?
12. Back to good old Massachusetts. It's the winter of 1927 and strange things are afoot in this odd seaport town. US soldiers are herding up various citizens and placing them in special camps. The citizens have an odd look about them. They don't seem to blink and have flabby lips and almost hairless heads. Offshore, there's a disturbance in the ocean. A navy submarine is firing torpedoes at something underwater. What story are we in?
13. Once more we return to the fictional town of Arkham. A gale has destroyed the roof of a boarding house. Workmen clear through the rubble of the vacant room of one Walter Gilman, who recently died under mysterious circumstances. What they find in the rubbish causes them to call the police. The space above the slanting roof was filled with the bones of children, books on black magic, and the body of a strange ratlike creature. What kind of weird house is this?
14. It's 1896. We're in the middle of the densely wooded Miskatonic Valley. A dilapidated cottage has just been struck by lightning. A young cyclist runs from the burning building in horror. Strangely, it's not the fire that has scared him. What's this all about?
15. We end our tour in the Australian Outback. Miskatonic U has sponsered an archaeological dig here and has uncovered the remains of a pre-human city. An elderly professor by the name of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee walks through the ruins at night. If the city is more ancient than man, why does it seem so familiar to him? What story is this?
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czolgolz
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