The Abyss

"The Abyss" is a short story by American author and Lovecraft contemporary Robert A. W. Lowndes.
==Synopsis==
A group of university friends dabbling in the occult unwittingly summon a being of great power which offers one of their number to its masters, a race of sadistic extra-dimensional creatures.
==Characters==
*Unnamed Narrator, a member of a circle of friends with an interest in the occult.
*Graf Norden, another member of the group, and the one with the most learning in the subject.
*Dureen, a creature known as a seeker, sent forth by its masters the Adumbrali to fetch them fresh playthings.
*Colby, another member of the group, apparently quite foolhardy.
==Publication History==
"The Abyss" first saw print in the February 1941 issue of Stirring Science Stories and has been reprinted many times in many different publications.
==Trivia==
*"The Abyss" saw the first appearance of Lowndes' occult manuscript the Song of Yste, which is spoken of in the same context as the Necronomicon and the Book of Eibon.
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