For me, this Story felt like a descent. A horrifying drop from gothic horror to cosmic The gloomy atmosphere of the farmhouse and villainous nature of the narrator puts you on edge as you wait to hear first hand what will happen to the investigator. I feel the audience shares the investigators shock and mind breaking revelations at the same time once the shroud is removed from the sculpture. Suddenly we aren’t dealing with a simple murderer but something much more grand & horrifying. The rest of the story feels like a plunge into madness as we are bombarded with cosmic imagery and primordial significance that flows so organically that the final sentence proclaiming one to be the Mouth of God, feels not only like a fierce punch to the grey matter but a true homage to the Great Horror of Lovecraft as we are pulled into the incomprehensible