The full three offspring quote from The Darkest Part of the Woods

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Summary: The Darkest Part of the Woods, by Ramsey Campbell, is mostly about mood with some moments of slight intensity thrown in. One of my favorites of the latter is this...describing three illustrations drawn from past...experiments...

BLOT: (25 Jun 2012 - 02:47:39 PM)

The full three offspring quote from The Darkest Part of the Woods

From The Darkest Part of the Woods, page 322, describing three drawings (taken "from life", i.e. live sketches), calling back to, and illustrating the outcomes of, vile experiments. I tried sharing this, earlier, but Kindle's "note and share" feature apparently cuts off after so many words/characters, so it didn't get the whole thing. Here it is in full:

It wasn't the drawing from which she'd recoiled when Sylvia had shown her the journal, but it was as bad. It showed a small creature crouching on all fours beside a tower. Despite its lack of a mouth and its enormous eyes that looked trapped by an unnaturally lightless sky, it reminded her far too much of a toddler. She attempted to ignore it while she scanned the text opposite, then snatched at the page, only to reveal the drawing of a child with eyes swarming out of its honeycomb of a skull. The third and last was worse still; the figure grovelling in the shadow of the tower—a shadow, Heather was eager to realise, that wouldn't have existed given the blackness of the sky—had an almost perfect child's face except for the single huge eye perched on the top like an egg in a cup.

I think it was the last one that got me the most...a little kid who is perfectly normally, except the top of his head is a large eye, staring up into the darkest parts of space...

Ramsey Campbell

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