by Clark Ashton Smith
About 1918 I was in ill health and, during a short visit to San
Francisco, was sitting one day in the Bohemian Club, to which I had
been given a guest's card of admission. Happening to look up, I saw
a frightful demonian face with twisted rootlike eyebrows and oblique
fiery-slitted eyes, which seemed to emerge momentarily from air about
nine feet above me and lean toward my seat. The thing disappeared as
it approached me, but left an ineffaceable impression of malignity,
horror, and loathsomeness. If an hallucination, it was certainly seen
amid appropriate surroundings; if an actual entity, it was no doubt
the kind that would be likely to haunt a club in one of our modern
Gomorrahs.
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