Robert Barbour Johnson

"It's been attested in every country in the world, and by every people. Why, even the Bible has references to 'the ghouls that burrow in the earth', and even today in modern Persia they hunt down with dogs and guns, like beasts, strange, tomb-dwelling creatures neither quite human nor quite beast; and in Syria and Palestine and parts of Russia."

--Robert Barbour Johnson, FAR BELOW


"But even with the worst played down, there's still enough horror and nightmare in it to blast a man's soul, if he lets himself think on what goes on down there, below the blessed sanity of the earth's mercifully concealing crust. Far below...."

--Robert Barbour Johnson, FAR BELOW


"For it shows how they may have come about--must have come about, in fact, in the world's dim dawn; perhaps never quite human, of course, perhaps never Neanderthal or even Piltdown; something even lower, closer linked to the primeval beast, but that when driven underground, into caves and then beneath them by Man's coming, retrograded century by uncounted century down to the worm-haunted darkness--just as we poor devils are retrograding down here from very contact with them--until at last none of us will ever be able again to walk above in the blessed sunlit air among our fellow men--"

--Robert Barbour Johnson, FAR BELOW


"But there's no dawn for us down here, of course. There'll never be a dawn for poor souls down here in the eternal dark, far, far below...."

--Robert Barbour Johnson, FAR BELOW