The fuse in his hand touched the dark substance which he had spread out upon the rock.

In a moment a strange, unearthly, green light seemed to roll back the darkness.

The house, the workshop, the trees, the slowly flowing sea, their own ghastly faces--everything stood revealed in a blaze of hideous, awful light.

For a moment they forgot themselves, they forgot the miracle they had brought to pass.
Their eyes were rivetted skyward.

High above them, something blacker than the heavens themselves, stupendous, huge, seemed suddenly to assume to itself shape.