Donovan
otherThe sailor of the landing party who felt delicately over the edge of the acre-great door and climbed its molding until the panel gave inward; one of the three men swept up by the flabby claws.
At the immense carved portal Donovan felt over the stone delicately around the edge, pressing each point separately as he went, and climbed interminably along the grotesque molding while the men wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast — until, very softly and slowly, the acre-great panel began to give inward at the top and was seen to be balanced. He slid or somehow propelled himself down or along the jamb and rejoined his fellows to watch the queer recession of the monstrously carven portal.
He was one of the three men swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned, with Guerrera and Angstrom.
Fate — Swept up by the flabby claws, with Guerrera and Angstrom.
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“Then Donovan felt over it delicately around the edge, pressing each point separately as he went. He climbed interminably along the grotesque stone molding—that is, one would call it climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal—and the men wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast. Then, very softly and slowly, the acre-great panel began to give inward at the top; and they saw that it was balanced.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea
“Three men were swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned. God rest them, if there be any rest in the universe. They were Donovan, Guerrera and Angstrom.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea