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Creatures of the Pool by Ramsey Campbell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<br><h3> Chapter One </h3> <b>Litherpool is Lytherpol is Liuerpul</b> <p> <p> We've rowed out of the Mersey and under the first bridge across the Pool that gives the town its name. Against a sky that would be as black as the water except for countless stars, a figure wobbles over the unenclosed bridge from the Heath into Litherpool. Perhaps he's returning from the deer park north of Lytherpol. He may have gone in search of country air, away from the outbreak of plague in Chapel-street, unless he wanted to escape the presence of so many animals, most of them alive, in the seven narrow thoroughfares of Liuerpul. Now he's heading towards the Castle, where a sentry transforms the end of a yawn into a challenge all the sterner for its unauthoritative genesis. Beyond the Castle the streets are unlit except for a lantern at the stone cross beside the stocks on the ridge where Castle-street meets Juggler-street, and a second lantern in front of the cross at the far end of the latter. The villagers who attended church beside the upper reaches of the Pool have gone home to Everton, and the winding line of fitful lights has vanished from the slope, although other

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Author
Ramsey Campbell
Publisher
Leisure Books (Dorchester Publishing Co.)
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780843963847
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Horror
Rating
3.06 / 5 (141 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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