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that those warning visions of doom had been deliberately planted by the CCD in
the minds of the three Foundation psychics in an attempt to hold up the
Innsmouth operations. These were some of the problems that worried Wingate
Peaslee; they were among the reasons for his deciding to supervise Project X
personally.
That same morning he had received by airmail a parcel from London containing a
number of notebooks, various documents and tape recordings. The parcel was
from a personal friend of the professor's and a former member of the
Foundation, Henri-Laurent de Marigny. Similarly that morning a communication
had arrived from the British chapter of the Foundation consisting of a brief
and cryptic note from the psychic Mother Eleanor Quarry. Peaslee showed me the
note. It said simply this: 'Titus Crow has been back. He is no longer here. I
believe that this time de Marigny has followed him. Wingate, I think we are in
for terrible trouble.'
Typical of the brilliant British psychic and cryptic as it was, nevertheless
the first three sentences of this note meant much to both Wingate Peaslee and
to myself; the last sentence was more obscure, unless it was yet another
warning of approaching doom.
Peaslee then told me how he would dearly love to explore the contents of the
parcel from de Marigny himself but simply had no time at present to do so. I
was given that task. Perhaps, in retrospect, it would have been better if
Peaslee had not gone to Innsmouth but had attended to the parcel instead. Who
can say?
First I read the notebooks, a task I completed on the morning of 24 March. I
began to listen to the tapes late on the night of the 25th, pressure of work
keeping me from them until then. I had barely started when, just after
midnight, there came the first subterranean rumblings,

the first grim warning that this was to be the day of the Fury!
Fortunately, before the Fury struck with its full force, I was able to place
manuscripts and tapes alike in my office safe. When I retrieved them from the
debris of Miskatonic four days later, the notebooks and documents were still
intact; the tapes had suffered somewhat.
So much for a prologue. As background material toward an understanding of the
forces behind the Fury, and as a personal account of his own involvement with
the CCD and with Titus Crow, Henri-Laurent de Marig-ny's work is required
reading. In it, as in the transcriptions from the tape recordings of Titus
Crow's narrative, which follow it - and as in de Marigny's recently reprinted
earlier account of the Wilmarth Foundation's work, The Burrowers Beneath - no
single word of the author's original text has been altered.
Arthur D. Meyer New Miskatonic, Rutland, Vermont

PART ONE 1
But What of Titus Crow?
(From de Marigny's notebooks)
My first thought on awakening, particularly on finding myself in a hospital
bed, was that it had all been a nightmare, a horrific dream perhaps engendered
of whichever drugs I had been given to assist in my recovery from-
My recovery from what?
Plainly I had suffered some terrible accident or attack of incredible