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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: ape or anthropomorphic fiend. It had not left behind quite all
that it had attacked, for sometimes it had been hungry. The number
it had killed was fourteen; three of the bodies had been in stricken
homes and had not been alive.
On the third night frantic bands
of searchers, led by the police, captured it in a house on Crane
Street near the Miskatonic campus. They had organised the quest
with care, keeping in touch by means of volunteer telephone stations,
and when someone in the college district had reported hearing
a scratching at a shuttered window, the net was quickly spread.
On account of the general alarm and precautions, there were only
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