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object:1f.lovecraft - Collapsing Cosmoses
author class:H P Lovecraft
subject class:Fiction
genre class:Horror
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By R. H. Barlow
and H. P. Lovecraft
[Note: Barlow’s contributions are in brackets.]
Dam Bor glued each of his six eyes to the lenses of the cosmoscope. His
nasal tentacles were orange with fear, and his antennae buzzed hoarsely
as he dictated his report to the operator behind him. “It has come!” he
cried. “That blur in the ether can be nothing less than a fleet from
outside the space-time continuum we know. Nothing like this has ever
appeared before. It must be an enemy. Give the alarm to the
Inter-Cosmic Chamber of Commerce. There’s no time to lose—at this rate
they’ll be upon us in less than six centuries. Hak Ni must have a
chance to get the fleet in action at once.”
[I glanced up from the Windy City Grab-Bag, which had beguiled my
inactive peace-time days in the Super-Galactic Patrol. The handsome
young vegetable, with whom I shared my bowl of caterpillar custard
since earliest infancy, and with whom I had been thrown out of every
joint in the intra-dimensional city of Kastor-Ya,] had really a worried
look upon his lavender face. After he had given the alarm we jumped on
our ether-bikes and hastened across to the outer planet on which the
Chamber held its sessions.
[Within the Great Council Chamber, which measured twenty-eight square
feet (with quite a high ceiling), were gathered delegates from all the
thirty-seven galaxies of our immediate universe. Oll Stof, President of
the Chamber and representative of the Milliner’s Soviet, raised his
eyeless snout with dignity] and prepared to address the assembled
multitude. He was a highly developed protozoan organism from Nov-Kas,
and spoke by emitting alternate waves of heat and cold.
[“Gentlemen,” he radiated, “a terrible peril has come upon us which I
feel I must bring to your attention.”
Everybody applauded riotously, as a wave of excitement rippled through
the variegated audience; those who were handless slithering their
tentacles together.
He continued: “Hak Ni, crawl upon the dais!”
There was a thunderous silence, during which a faint prompting was
heard] from the dizzy summit of the platform. [Hak Ni, the
yellow-furred and valorous commander of our ranks through numerous
installments, ascended to the towering peak inches above the floor.
“My friends—” he began, with an eloquent scraping of his posterior
limbs, “these treasured walls and pillars shall not mourn on my
account....” At this point, one of his numerous relatives cheered.
“Well do I remember when...”
Oll Stof interrupted him.] “You have anticipated my thoughts and
orders. Go forth and win for dear old Inter-Cosmic.”
[Two paragraphs later found us soaring out past innumerable stars
toward where a faint blur half a million light-years long marked the
presence of the hated enemy, whom we had not seen. What monsters of
malformed grotesqueness seethed out there among the moons of infinity,
we really didn’t know, but there was a malign menace in the glow that
steadily increased until it spanned the entire heavens. Very soon we
made out separate objects in the blur. Before all my horror-stricken
vision-areas there spread an endless array of scissors-shaped
space-ships of totally unfamiliar form.
Then from the direction of the enemy there came a terrifying sound,
which I soon recognised as a hail and a challenge. An answering thrill
crept through me as I met with uplifted antennae this threat of battle
with a monstrous intrusion upon our fair system from unknown outside
abysses.]
At the sound, [which was something like that of a rusty sewing-machine,
only more horrible,] Hak Ni too raised his snout in defiance, radiating
a masterful order to the captains of the fleet. Instantly the huge
space-ships swung into battle formation, with only a hundred or two of
them many light-years out of line.
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