Fear and Fascination

Question 1

“A sudden chill came over me.”
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“for I could not avert my face from these things” 1C4

Question 2

“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came Fear” 1C5

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“My terror had fallen from me like a garment” 1C7

Question 3

“My nerve went altogether” 1C10 –
“I was exhausted with the violence of my emotion” 1C8

Answer 3

Sudden onset of fear after lengthy description indicates that the narrator was not afraid up until this point.

Question 4

gorgon groups of tentacles

Peculiar V-shaped mouths

Something fungoid in their oily brown skin

Question 5

immense eyes - were at once vital, intense, inhumane, crippled and monstrous

Question 6

a kind of fascination paralyzed my actions… I was a battleground of fear and curiosity

Question 7

the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the Great Panic

Question 8

Its motion was so swift, complex and perfect

Question 9

we lurked…balanced between our horror and terrible fascination