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"Dan---for God's sake! The pit of the shoggoths! Down the six thousand steps . . . the abomination of abominations . . . I never would let her take me, and then I found myself there---Iä! Shub-Niggurath!---The shape rose up from the altar, and there were five hundred that howled---The Hooded Thing bleated 'Kamog! Kamog!'---that was old Ephraim's secret name in the coven---I was there, where she promised she wouldn't take me---A minute before I was locked in the library, and then I was there where she had gone with my body---in the place of utter blasphemy, the unholy pit where the black realm begins and the watcher guards the gate---I saw a shoggoth---it changed shape---I can't stand it---I'll kill her if she ever sends me there again---I'll kill that entity---her, him, it---I'll kill it! I'll kill it with my own hands!"
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