The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter Page #2

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We're going to have a media circus.

Are you ready to bring all that

on this toWn and university?

Yes, sir. We have to face it.

You're a brilliant student, Carter,

but you're a fool.

Nobody's going to believe you.

Nobody's going to help you.

You knoW about this.

You knoW about that place.

You have no idea

What forces you've stumbled on.

- And you do?

- I don't stumble on them.

I respect them and leave them alone,

and so does everybody else.

Ignorance.

Damn stupid 1 7th-century ignorance.

That's What's Wrong

With you and this toWn.

This toWn Was cursed

long before the 1 7th century

and there isn't anything

you or I can do to change that.

If you pursue this,

you'll end up like your friends.

Yes, sir.

- Have you seen Professor Warren?

- Upstairs reading room.

- Professor Warren.

- Oh, hello, Carter. Do sit doWn.

- I have to talk to you.

- What have you got there?

Before I shoW you this...

The old Joshua Winthrop house by the

cemetery. What do you knoW about it?

Ha. Quite a lot, actually.

The place has a most dismal reputation.

As a matter of fact

I collected some tales about it.

There Was one about...

an image seen in an attic WindoW.

Another one about a young man

Who Was chased by a horned creature.

And there Was the most

extraordinary business in 1 842 or '43...

Yes. I've read them.

But have you ever been out there?

Good heavens, no.

I'm a scholar. I'm not a field man.

Besides, the locale is not

terribly important in oral history.

If you haven't been there, hoW do you knoW?

My dear Carter, you're not implying there

might be some substance to these tales?

Yes, I am. I didn't see it personally,

but Eliot Damon HoWard did.

He claims to have seen

the creature of the legends.

I Would need something

more substantial to corroborate that.

The Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred.

My dear chap, do you knoW What this is?

Have you any idea? Where did you find it?

In the Winthrop house.

Oh...

This is the original Arabic text.

There hasn't been one of these extant

since the Cotton Mather one.

- And that disappeared in...

- 1688.

This, Professor, is the same copy.

I'd hate to calculate the fines due on it.

You're absolutely right. It is.

There are the missing pages.

Cotton Mather didn't even entrust

the university With the complete copy.

- Who did the annotations?

- Oh, probably Mather.

- I've no idea Who did the English.

- Joshua Winthrop?

Yes, possibly Winthrop.

He must have borroWed the book

and it Was never returned.

I believe Joshua Winthrop created the

creature of these legends using this book.

Yes.

Yes, it is possible.

That's Why We have to go there.

We have to find this thing and prove it's real.

Wait a minute, Carter.

If this thing is alive,

it could be very dangerous.

Something happened

at the Winthrop house last night.

Four Miskatonic University students

Were killed.

They Were killed, I believe, by this creature.

Good heavens.

But it Would be most improper

to interfere With the police investigation.

- So We should turn this over to them?

- Are you mad?!

Sshh!

Have you any idea of the damage

that could result

if this book fell into the Wrong hands?

No, no, no. It must be locked up safe

in the university vaults

and kept aWay

from the prying eyes of the public.

It should be entrusted only in the hands

of scholars of...integrity and probity.

You are the most qualified scholar I knoW

and I need your help

to confront this beast.

- Aagh!

- HoWard. HoWard, Wake up. Wake up.

- The last thing you need to do is sleep.

- Every time I doze off...

- It's time.

- We have to convince the police.

- Forget it. We can't trust anyone noW.

- Then What?

- Are you Well enough to travel?

- You're not going back?

Get dressed. I brought you some clothes.

Every time I fall asleep, there she is...

it is...just Waiting for me.

I just manage to Wake up

before she can...

Before she can What?

I don't knoW, l... I don't knoW.

Turn here. We can't go in by the path.

There'll be a police car parked up there.

- Shouldn't We Wait for the day?

- You think it Would be safer?

- SomehoW, yes.

- Primitive superstition.

I don't care.

(Slamming)

- Quiet.

- Sorry.

Which Way noW?

Over here.

(Police radio)

- Debbie, come in. It's Joe.

- 'What is it, Joe?'

I just saW something.

A light in the forest near the house.

'Check it out.'

No Way. I'm not going Without back-up.

Have Ben get out here.

There it is.

- Are you sure about this?

- You Wanna keep having those dreams?

No.

What if that ghost you saW Was right?

That this thing Will destroy us all.

(HoWard) I just Wish

someone else had found it.

Well, HoWard, give me a hand.

(Warren) Gravediggers?

(Carter) I don't think so.

(HoWard) I am not going doWn there.

(Carter) Exactly. You're going

to be our base man.

Radios Won't Work underground,

so We brought the intercom.

Here. My car keys,

just in case something goes Wrong.

- I've gotta stay up here all alone?

- There's alWays the cop back on the road.

HoW long do you think this Will take?

Well, it's nine o'clock.

We should get a move on.

HoWard, if you leave this spot, turn off

the intercom so no one Will hear.

OK. Be careful, Carter.

Sure thing. Don't fall asleep.

That's not gonna be a problem.

Here.

I Want you to take notes

of everything that I say.

- Why?

- Just do it.

OK.

Hey. Good luck.

Thanks, HoWard. Same to you.

I hope I don't need it.

I hate nights like this.

Come on, then.

Aah!

Perfectly normal.

The coffins rot

and the bones shift in the soft soil.

- Seems to be getting more open.

- Yes.

You think that creature of yours

made these tunnels?

I don't see Why anyone else Would.

(Faint unearthly scream)

- What Was that?

- The creature, I think.

It's someWhere ahead.

I am questioning the sanity of this.

What an addenda to your oral history

if you prove the legends to be real.

- No one's ever done that before.

- Perhaps they didn't live to tell the tale.

All right, my boy. Scholarly vanity

triumphs over common sense.

- 'HoWard?'

- Yeah?

- 'HoWard?'

- OW!

- You scared the hell out of me.

- We're about 100 feet in.

The creature has been in here

and may be up ahead.

Don't get yourself killed.

'I'll check in every 15 or 20 minutes.'

Hopefully you'll be back by then.

It's getting creepy.

'Keep a stiff upper lip. Later.'

Well...there's the reason.

This must be Tanya's friend, Wendy

Barnes.

Whatever carved these tunnels

Was looking for food.

The flesh of fresh corpses.

Which Would explain the extent of them.

It Would have taken decades to dig.

Yes. This graveyard Was abandoned

in the early 1 800s.

Whatever did this

had large canines and incisors...

not human

and look there, those claW marks.

Definitely not human.

(Barking)

That's a dog. That's just a dog.

(Rustling)

Dog.

I think We've found something here.

Carter, come here.

I've never seen runes like this.

I have. Alhazred dreW figures

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