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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: and the men of Dunwich braced themselves tensely against some
imponderable menace with which the atmosphere seemed surcharged.
Without warning came those deep, cracked, raucous vocal sounds
which will never leave the memory of the stricken group who heard
them. Not from any human throat were they born, for the organs
of man can yield no such acoustic perversions. Rather would one
have said they came from the pit itself, had not their source
been so unmistakably the altar-stone on the peak. It is almost
erroneous to call them sounds at all, since so much of their ghastly,
infra-bass timbre spoke to dim seats of consciousness and terror
far subtler than the ear; yet one must do so, since their form
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