In a cache of papers next to the curio, Thurston also finds a manuscript entitled "CTHULHU CULT" split into two sections.
In the course of going through Angell’s papers, Thurston recollects finding a locked box containing a "five by six inch" clay bas-relief, featuring hieroglyphics and the outline of a creature described as a combination of an octopus, a dragon, and a human.
Thurston explains that as Angell’s heir and executor, he had been tasked with dealing with his grand-uncle's estate. The circumstances of Angell’s death had caused a local controversy- although authorities claimed that his heart gave out after being jostled by a passer-by, Thurston has lately doubted this testimony. In the winter of 1926, Thurston writes, his grand-uncle George Gammel Angell, a retired professor of Semitic languages at Brown University, passed away at the age of 92. He describes happening upon a “dread glimpse” of such cosmological truth after having pieced together various accounts secondhand, drawn from reading an old newspaper and consulting the notes of a deceased professor to whom he is related. After a quotation from British writer Algernon Blackwood, the title of the story indicates that what is to follow has been, “found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston of Boston.” The speaker of the story, Francis Wayland Thurston himself, contemplates the vast and incomprehensible nature of the things in the universe still unknown to mankind, in spite of our many scientific and technological advancements.
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