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Yes. One who
conjures up the dead.
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They demanded punishment.
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And one night
the people of the village...
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marched on the palace...
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dragged your ancestor
into the yard, and burned him.
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Burned him?
The "Burning Man."
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That explains the guilt.
:32:22
What about the fear?
:32:25
Curwen put a curse
on the village.
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He vowed that he'd return.
:32:30
You can see
the resemblance yourself.
:32:32
I'm sure that
every warlock or witch...
:32:35
who died in America
left a curse.
:32:39
Why should Curwen's
be taken so seriously?
:32:41
Why should it be remembered
after all these years?
:32:43
I can't say.
He was a strange man.
:32:48
There were terrible
rumors about him.
:32:50
Such as?
:32:51
It was thought that
he had gained possession...
:32:54
of a book
called the Necronomicon.
:32:57
Have you heard of it?
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No.
:33:01
It obviously never existed...
:33:03
except in the minds
of the superstitious.
:33:05
But they claimed
it held enough secrets...
:33:07
to give a man absolute power.
:33:10
Of course, every mythology
has such a book...
:33:14
but the Necronomicon
supposedly contained formulas...
:33:18
through which one
could communicate with...
:33:21
or even summon the elder gods...
:33:23
the dark ones from beyond
who had once ruled the world...
:33:27
and now are merely waiting...
:33:29
for an opportunity
to regain that control.
:33:32
Cthulhu, Yog-sothoth.
:33:36
Dreadful rubbish, I know.
:33:38
Still, the people
of Arkham believed it.
:33:42
They claimed that Joseph Curwen
and two other warlocks...
:33:46
were trying to open the gates
to these dark gods.
:33:49
Open the gates? How?
:33:52
They claimed that
Joseph Curwen was trying...
:33:54
to mate those beings with humans
to create a new race...
:33:59
through which the gods
could regain their control.