the black haunted woods
regionThe dreaded cypress woods deep in the swamp country south of New Orleans — a tract of traditionally evil repute where no dweller ventured, and the immemorial meeting-place of the Black-winged Ones.
No dweller of the swamp country ventured into these woods, within which the malevolent tom-tom beat before the squatters' women and children disappeared. When Legrasse's party went in, the police splashed for miles in silence through the terrible cypress woods where day never came; piles of dank stones and fragments of rotting walls hinted at morbid habitation.
The region was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men. Legends placed within it a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes; the voodoo orgy the police interrupted lay on the merest fringe of this abhorred area.
During the raid, Joseph D. Galvez fancied he heard antiphonal responses to the ritual from some far and unillumined spot deeper within the wood of ancient legendry and horror, and the prisoners averred that the killing of the squatters had been done by Black-winged Ones which came to them from their immemorial meeting-place in the haunted wood.
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“The region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
“There were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
“averred that the killing had been done by Black-winged Ones which had come to them from their immemorial meeting-place in the haunted wood”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse