:16:00
Another one about a young man
Who Was chased by a horned creature.
:16:05
And there Was the most
extraordinary business in 1 842 or '43...
:16:09
Yes. I've read them.
But have you ever been out there?
:16:14
Good heavens, no.
I'm a scholar. I'm not a field man.
:16:18
Besides, the locale is not
terribly important in oral history.
:16:23
If you haven't been there, hoW do you knoW?
:16:25
My dear Carter, you're not implying there
might be some substance to these tales?
:16:30
Yes, I am. I didn't see it personally,
but Eliot Damon HoWard did.
:16:35
He claims to have seen
the creature of the legends.
:16:38
I Would need something
more substantial to corroborate that.
:16:58
The Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred.
:17:03
My dear chap, do you knoW What this is?
:17:05
Have you any idea? Where did you find it?
:17:08
In the Winthrop house.
:17:13
Oh...
:17:16
This is the original Arabic text.
:17:19
There hasn't been one of these extant
since the Cotton Mather one.
:17:22
- And that disappeared in...
- 1688.
:17:25
1688.
:17:27
This, Professor, is the same copy.
I'd hate to calculate the fines due on it.
:17:32
You're absolutely right. It is.
:17:34
There are the missing pages.
:17:36
Cotton Mather didn't even entrust
the university With the complete copy.
:17:41
- Who did the annotations?
- Oh, probably Mather.
:17:45
- I've no idea Who did the English.
- Joshua Winthrop?
:17:49
Yes, possibly Winthrop.
:17:51
He must have borroWed the book
and it Was never returned.
:17:55
I believe Joshua Winthrop created the
creature of these legends using this book.