The Horror in the Clay is an evidence file in The Outlast Trials.
It is an entry in the "Easterman Recruitment" folder.
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"Easterman Journals
1954.05.01
MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCE
COPY
PRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN
Saturday. Perusing a used book shop in Santa Fe, I found a book of monster stories collected from Weird Tales magazine, including a favorite of mine as a child.
The story is feeble pulp, the work of a slavering fetishist simultaneously terrified and aroused by our dusky brethren's more atavistic modes of worship. But the opening paragraph struck me as oddly applicable to my new friends at Los Alamos:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
It is May Day. Workers of the world unite."