:33:00
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.
:34:01
That's how they explained
the mutated births...
:34:06
unsuccessful experiments
passed on...
:34:08
from generation to generation,
carried in the blood.
:34:11
What's your
explanation, doctor?
:34:14
I don't have one.
:34:16
I advise you
to leave this village.
:34:20
I advise you to flee it...
:34:22
as you would from
a madman with a knife...
:34:24
who feels compelled
to destroy you...
:34:28
before you can destroy him.