The Dark Boatman: Tales of Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos (17 page)

I could have told the police what I saw, but they would not have believed. Ben Trevelyan knows, but his wild, demented ravings are, of course, ignored; and as for Lindennan, although he half-believes, he is content to leave these black nameless things alone. What he will do, very soon, when I go back to Dark Point lighthouse for the last time, I do not know. Perhaps then, he will tell them all he knows and try to make them believe, force them to take dynamite and destroy that accursed place once and for all.

For I shall go back; I
must
go back. There is now no way by which I can prevent myself. I am writing this in the hope that someone may read and believe all that has happened. Even though that last, final horror may have turned my brain so that I can no longer really say that what happened is the truth and not a nightmare; for crazed though I undoubtedly was—
the face of that black horror which looked down at me from that open trapdoor was that of Philip Meredith—my brother!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

These stories were previously published as follows, and are reprinted by permission of the author’s Estate and his agent, Cosmos Literary Agency:

“The Dark Boatman” was first published in
Spectral Tales
No. 2
. Copyright © 1989 by John Glasby; Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of John Glasby.

“Aunt Amelia” was first published in
Fantasy Adventures No. 13
. Copyright © 2008 by John Glasby; Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of John Glasby.

“That Deep Black Yonder” was first published in
Supernatural Stories No. 107
. Copyright © 1967 by John Glasby; Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of John Glasby.

“Dust” was first published in
Supernatural Stories No. 107
. Copyright © 1967 by John Glasby; Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of John Glasby.

“The Keeper of Dark Point” was first published in
Supernatural Stories No. 107
. Copyright © 1967 by John Glasby; Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of John Glasby.