16.07.2014 - 16:13 [ archive.org ]

Cousin Silas – Dronescape 020 (waag_drs020)

This Dronescape reminds me of the first Lovecraft story that I read: „The Nameless City“. I read it because it was the first story in an anthology that I had purchased for pennies for my Kindle. I remember vividly being hooked with the sense of mounting terror that Lovecraft conveys. My mind was brought back to this story when I heard this Dronescape and, in particular, a point where the terror had taken hold and the protagonist recalled the following:
„I repeated queer extracts, and muttered of Afrasiab and the daemons that floated with him down the Oxus; later chanting over and over again a phrase from one of Lord Dunsany‘s tales – ‚The unreverberate blackness of the abyss.'“