"The Beast in the Cave" by H. P. Lovecraft

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This story was written by Lovecraft when he was 14 years old, but was published only much later. Not bad for a 14-year old!

prognathous: having a projecting lower jaw or chin.

freshet: the flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow.

The pictures used is "Pictures from Mammoth Passage Tour (Mammoth Cave National Park - Kentucky)" by Corey Seeman, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

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