Visions

Dear diary,

The occurrences began immediately after I relocated to my family manor in the northern region of the country. But first, I shall provide some context. The house I currently reside in; the house I relocated to was originally built by an ancestral figure of countless generations before my existence, and as such, the manor has existed for Millenia. Being the sole executor of my father's estate, this house naturally came into my possession after his passing.

I first noticed a strangeness in the manor's area prior to even setting foot behind those intricate oak doors, whose symbols reflect a family coat of arms of which I am all too familiar with. A search within a radius of three miles yielded no signs of flourishing life; any trees found seemed as though they had been partially obliterated by some weirdly behaved lightning; they decomposed with a sickly smell of burnt sap. Neither did I recognise the mating calls of various bird species, or the distinct chirp of cicadas that emanated from trees. This disturbed me deeply, for it further reinforced my suspicions that this placid family dwelling hid a terrible secret of unremitting horror.

It was during nightfall that I detected a change in the atmosphere around the building. I was informed by a weather forecast that a storm was approaching my region, and by then multitudinous streaks of ivory lightning had already begun their assault on the nearby woods and the land itself, displaying a brilliant display of an infinitesimal fraction of nature's wrath and power upon the midnight sky. Of course, they were accompanied by monstrous thunderclaps whose unfathomable decibels seek to represent the voice of a malevolent deity.

In the house, I was in the midst of one of my ruminations when I heard what was perceived to be a thudding sound that soon piqued my curiosity, leading me on a search for its origin. I eventually discovered that this sound came from the nether regions of the residence, a subterranean hollowing that was not previously discovered by the previous tenants of my house. This I know for the fact that it emanated from beneath the cellar. Finding no way of reaching this underground space, and after cautioning myself from unearthing, or rather opening this pandora's box at this late hour, I resolved to finding a way to the sound's origin the next day, and so I retreated to my bedroom to sleep.

That night, I awoke in a dream of insane vistas which filled my mind and materialized in a vision of ungodly terror.

I was in a lightless chamber, save for the candle in my trembling hands. Yet I had inferred from an obscure source from the bottom of my mind that this was the antechamber of that ambiguous location from which the noise I heard yesterday emanated from. Confronted by a fear of the vast unknown that lay ahead of me, slowly did I inch forward, wary of my surroundings even by the light of my dripping candle. I eventually came to a monolithic gate with no significant gaps that aided its transparency. There was, though a hole at the edge of the entrance through which I could see into the obscure, midnight world of which proportions I had just begun to realize.

It was then that my heart began to palpitate at a monstrous rate as it witnessed a newfound terror that found me as soon as I peered through that crack in the armour of my sanity, into a whole new world of abhorrent and formless horrors, their nature and appearance no healthy mind can fully appreciate and rationalize. I was gazing into the lightless void of infinity, of which no finite mind can fully comprehend without losing its sanity to the unremitting horror that lies awaiting. I let out a bloodcurdling scream that must have ripped my vocal cords to shreds and fell back into the darkness that engulfed me and returned me to the safety of reality.

I awoke screaming, and although I attempted to reassure myself of the safety of my home, I concluded that there lay an interdimensional entrance to a many-angled intergalactic region in space, a place nigh-devoid of light, that lay undisturbed for aeons till a disturbance linked it to the vast, undiscovered cave system beneath my home. There resides one of the uncountable horrors of the vast expanses of the universe, a place where the natural laws of science familiar to mankind are not enforced. Though, I do recall catching a glimpse of movement of some indescribable being. I think I must have lost my mind there and then.

It was but a minute and whimsical peek that opened my mind to the unparalleled abominations of the universe. I dare not say more, for fears of invisible espionage, I will keep mum, and I shall bring this dreadful revelation of the obscure, many-angled horrors that lurk in this universe yet beyond human comprehension, to my grave.

The end