This story blew me away that someone in the early 1900's could publish something like this. The story takes place in a man's mind who's being tapped by an evil entity (most likely Cthulhu). The messages are dark and we find out the man is a scholar attending college who's writing these satanic dark messages all over the walls and mutters them in his sleep. The satanic messages end up being Cthulu telling the man to kill the parasite inside of him. The parasite is Yuggoth the one being that can stop Cthulu. The man is basically pregnant with the alien jesus. The man (Henry Wentworth Akely) ignores the messages and gets medical help, by the end of the story Cthulu drives the man insane and into a mental hospital where he just lays there shaking repeating the message given to him by the entity of evil.
Memorable Line: Ia! Shub Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!...Ia! Sub Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!
Style: Completely original...don't know what to compare it to, incredible writing
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