Do not go to the caves in the North.

They are full of hungry things- long-fingered and sharp-boned. Their faces are nothing but mouth, wet and wanting and wretchedly ravenous. The way is long and winding, and if you go in, you will come out changed… if you come out at all.

Do not go to the caves in the North.

-Excerpt from Find Me At The Sea Wall; a collection of poems by Tadhg Carroll, published in 1955

“Tadgh Carroll is a buffoon, and frankly, I’ve had it up to here with his nonsense. No one comes outta the caves in the first place. And tryin’ to dress it up with flowery language only makes folk more curious. More folk get curious, more folk get eaten. Also, he hasn’t paid his bar tab.”

-Maureen Lofts in a letter to her sister, 1956

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