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Entities & creatures

Deep Ones

The Deep Ones are the sea-dwelling people whose bargains, descendants and underwater civilization lie behind the history of Innsmouth. Their first sustained narrative combines a threatened traveler’s escape with the discovery that the supposedly alien population belongs to his own ancestry.

10 min read · 1,931 words

Literature

The Alchemist

The Alchemist follows Antoine, the last count of a declining French family whose male titleholders repeatedly die around the age of thirty-two. His investigation of a centuries-old curse leads beneath his own castle, where an apparent hereditary doom becomes the work of a single, unnaturally persistent avenger. The story combines ancestral guilt, material decay and the pursuit of prolonged life.

6 min read · 1,068 words