Where ugliness reaches the height of its luxuriance, in the dense misery of the place, where one imagines the builder saying, 'Here I culminate. Let us give thanks to Satan,' there is a bridge of yellow brick, and through it, as through some gate of filigree silver opening on fairyland, one passes into the country."

A Dreamer's Tales, (The Field)

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"Yet as one emerges nearer to the edge of London, and nearer to the beautiful influence of the hills, the houses become uglier, the streets viler, the gloom deepens, the errors of civilisation stand bare to the scorn of the fields.

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Der unheimlich Gute Vorleser Gregor Schweitzer von GM Factory im Interview beim #Podcast der #ArkhamInsiders. #Lovecraft #Dunsany #Blackwood #Mythos

https://arkhaminsiders.com/blog/2022/09/04/arkham-insiders-folge-185-gregor-schweitzer-gm-factory-im-interview/