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Synopsis of “Dark Awakening”
After arriving at a New England beach in the summer time, our narrator notices an attractive mother of two, with no man around, and they exchange glances while shes’ caring for her children. He heads over when she asks for help, as she recently cut her hand, and he uses his handkerchief to bandage it.
She is Helen, and her children are John, age 8, and Susan age 6, whom the mother describes as an avid dreamer. They exchange some small talk, and then John suddenly stands up and moves out very quickly, heading to a very dangerous place over deep waters from a damaged and rotten board.
They head out, and John has a listless gaze about him, and won’t respond, staring at something in his hand. The board breaks, he falls down into the surf. After failing to surface, the narrator dives down to find him and does, still calm searching the bottom for something, and pulls him up.
John arrives, and tells he story that he was forced I nto the water, and pulled. He is still tightly clenching some unseen object in his right hand and can’t let go. The narrator opens his hand for him, and inside is an odd amulet with a sort of humanish fish thing in the art. Suddenly he feels the same compulsion, leaps for the sea intoning that the Deep Ones are rising, and more.
The children risk themselves to stop him, and bring him back, and the object was collected by some odd, creepy occultists later, and our narrator is convalescing in an asylum as others talk about what they think happened.
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