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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that
they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling
breath. If they can catch the fleeing soul when it leaves the
body, they instantly flutter away chittering in daemoniac laughter;
but if they fail, they subside gradually into a disappointed silence.
These tales, of course, are obsolete and ridiculous; because
they come down from very old times. Dunwich is indeed ridiculously
old - older by far than any of the communities within thirty miles
of it. South of the village one may still spy the cellar walls
and chimney of the ancient Bishop house, which was built before
1700; whilst the ruins of the mill at the falls, built in 1806,
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