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It was charge in Buffalo who told Zamakona of the queer stone doorways, gates, or cave mouths at the bottom

of some of those deep, steep wooded ravines which the party had noticed on the northward

march. These openings, he said, were mostly concealed by shrubbery,

and few had entered them for untold eons. Those who went to where they led never returned, or in a few cases returned mad or curiously maimed.

But all this was legend for nobody was known to have gone more than a limited distance inside any of them within the

memory of the grandfathers of the oldest living man.

He would not tell Big Chief Coronado what he knew, for Coronado would not listen to Indian talk anymore.

Yes, he could show them a Kona the way if the white man would leave the party and accept his guidance.

But he would not go inside the

opening with the white man. It was bad in there. That was the opening of

Chapter 3 of The Mound by Lovecraft and Zelia Bishop.

The story we're continuing to cover here on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

At H.P.Podcraft.com, I am Chris Lanky.

And I am Chad Fyfer, and we are glad to be back. We are back finally. Yeah. Sorry everyone would we had to take some time off because Chad had another unfortunate death in the family and I got ill as well.

Well, so you traveled home to the Quad Cities where we're from.

I did.

And then I had to go around the same time.

You were already there so we actually just missed each other we were in town

together at the same time but Chad had to go to a funeral that morning and I had to take

off on a plane so we just was a real bummer because I haven't seen you I mean we do

this show every week but I haven't seen you in almost a year yeah so ships passing in the night but you know I got to tell you this so my grandma passed away is very sad she was born in 1917 I don't know why I was thinking about that's the that's the first year we started with on this show with the tomb.

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