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The mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture together inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground.

Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Auriferous; (of rocks or minerals) containing gold.

- Covetousness; the feeling of having a strong desire for the things that other people have.

- Peon; a labourer or unskilled farm worker.

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"Ibid" is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486–587), whose masterpiece was in the work cited, "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all". The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels via Salem, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to a prairie dog hole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Cf. - Shortened form of the word 'compare'.

- Op. Cit. - Translates from Latin to 'in the work cited'.

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"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. In his statement, Carter attempts to explain the disappearance of his companion, the occultist Harley Warren.

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- Propitiate; win or regain the favour of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them.

- Nebulous; (of a concept) vague or ill-defined.

- Ken; one's range of knowledge or understanding.

- Obdurate; stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.

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The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.

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- Effulgence - the ability to shine brightly.

- Peristyles - a row of columns surrounding a space within a building such as a court or internal garden or edging a veranda or porch.

- Portent - a sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen.

- Morass - an area of muddy or boggy ground.

- Unanimity - agreement by all people involved; consensus.

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Craving more land, a group of these hardy people migrated to the shores of a lonely and vast lake at the heart of Mnar, founding the city of Sarnath. But the settlers were not alone. Not far from Sarnath was the ancient grey-stone city of Ib, inhabited by people who had descended from the Moon.

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- Inchoate; just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

- Chrysolie; Peridot, a gem-quality olivine. Archaically, any of several green or yellow-green-coloured gemstones including. Topaz, a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine.

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This story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was a prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wonder, few people appreciate it.

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In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light.

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A man touring the vast Mammoth Cave becomes separated from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him.

Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Sepulchre; a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

- Salubrious; health-giving; healthy.

- Freshet; the flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow.

- Itinerant; a person who alternates between working and wandering. a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.

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The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.

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- Verdure; the fresh green colour of lush vegetation.

- Furtive; attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

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Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple Atal.

Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Injudiciously; showing very poor judgement; unwise.

- Aureole; a circle of light or brightness surrounding something, especially as depicted in art around the head or body of a person represented as holy.

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