Eibon and a former pupil, Cyron, go to investigate a procession of ghosts appearing in Uthnor. While watching a spectral vision, the inhabitants of the village are driven mad and burn down the village, killing one another.
Cyron and Eibon determine there is a link between the spectral manifestations and an orbiting comet, which is in fact a chunk of Azathoth.
To find answers, they design a glass that sees through time. They see the past of Hyperborea, then its fall, its replacement by the modern age, then the fall of our civilization, and many more, all the way out to far-future Zothique, and finally, the end of the world. All of this connected with the comet.
Eibon and Cyron realize there is nothing they can do to prevent these things.
An evocative bit of Smith-iana. Still nothing special.
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