The blood of sunset had been replaced by the cool gray ashes of twilight.
The deserted, decaying shops had given way to deserted, decaying
warehouses. Her voice did not echo, but her footfalls seemed to. Overhead
the sky was now purple. It might have been some distorting effect of the
twilight, or her own exhaustion, but the warehouses seemed to lean hungrily
over the road. The windows, caked with the dirt of decades---of centuries,
perhaps---seemed to be staring at her. And the names on the signboards
became progressively stranger, even lunatic, at the very least,
unpronounceable. The vowels were in the wrong places, and the consonants
had been strung together in a way that would make it impossible for any
human tongue to get around them. "CTHULHU KRYON," read one. "YOGSOGGOTH"
read another. "R'YELEH;" "NYARLAHOTEP."

She was in the grip of a terrible, bone-rattling fear, a fear so great she
would not have believed a human being could endure it without going mad or
dropping dead. It was impossible for her to articulate her fear except in
one way, and even this, she said, only began to bridge the gulf which had
opened her mind and heart. She said it was as if she were no longer on
earth but on a different planet, a place so alien that the human mind could
not even begin to comprehend it. The ANGLES seemed different, she said. The
COLORS seemed different. The...but it was hopeless.

The stars were out, but they were not HER stars...these were crazed stars
and lunatic constellations...

The street began to move then. The cobbles began to undulate like a carpet.
They rose and fell, rose and fell. The tram tracks came loose and flew into
the air---and then the cobbles themselves began to come loose, one by one
at first, then in bunches. They just flew off into the darkness. There was
a tearing sound when they came loose, a grinding, tearing sound...the way
an earthquake must sound. And---something started to COME THROUGH...

Tentacles...and there were pink things like suckers...except sometimes
they looked like faces...and all of them were in agony. Below them, in the
darkness underneath the street---in the darkness BENEATH---there was
something else. Something like EYES...