Opening Quote

"Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...." —Algernon Blackwood.

"Such great powers or beings may conceivably survive ... from an age unimaginably far in the past. Back then ... consciousness perhaps took shapes and forms that long ago retreated before the tide of advancing humanity. Poetry and legend alone have caught fleeting memories of those forms, calling them gods, monsters, and mythical beings of every kind...." Algernon Blackwood.