Something like panic struck at Hurlow. Moffat's calm confession of fear withdrew the prop upon which he had leaned. Down there, among the motionless shadows, lurked invisible things, things that were nameless, shapeless and malignant; things which could see without being seen. One of the long lost terrors of childhood returned to him, and like a child he put his hand into Moffat's.A.M. Burrage
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Plunged into the unknown, there are dangers that are far more sinister than surface-level dangers. The danger is not in what lurks beneath the surface, but rather in what lurks beneath the waters we see.
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