SOURCES:
"The Hog" by William Hope Hodgson

DESCRIPTION: "The floor felt solid enough under me; but I seemed to be walking on nothing above a black void, like an inverted starless night, with the face of the approaching Hog rising up from far down under my feet - a silent, incredible thing out of the abyss - a pallid, floating swine-face, framed in enormous blackness..." ("the Hog" by William Hope Hodgson)

NOTES: The Hog is one of the major Saatii Manifestations. Carnacki protects himself from its cloudy but powerful form by using the Electric Pentacle. The Hog was terrorizing a man who's psychic defenses were weak.

HISTORY: "The Hog" is the best of the Carnacki stories with its long battle using the Colour barriers. Hodgson has a similar device protecting the Redoubt in The Nightland. A. R. Tilburne is not usually one of my favorite Weird Tales illustrators but his cover for January 1947 is quite effective. This is not an easy story to illustrate.

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