SciFi/Fantasy – August 20

“The one test of the really weird is simply this — whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe’s utmost rim.”
– Howard Phillips Lovecraft, born this date in 1890, in his 1933 essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature.”

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist experiences something “really weird.”

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