0656I think by the end of the year we will see the coming of the Crawling Chaos. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing ... people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies ... [a] sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land ... [there] was a daemoniac alteration in the sequence of the seasons – the autumn heat lingered fearsomely ... — HPL, Nyarlathotep |