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Places

Exham Priory

Exham Priory is the English ancestral estate restored by the narrator of The Rats in the Walls. Its layered foundations conceal a vast complex in which successive occupants maintained a cannibal institution, making the building an architectural record of a history its modern owner does not understand.

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Places

Vaults of Zin

The Vaults of Zin are the deep regions associated with the ghasts in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Their openings connect a predatory underworld with the gugs’ city, while rumor also links them to the pit inside the monastery of Leng.

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