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The Tale is informed by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts. When local newspapers report strange things noticed floating in rivers through a historic flood in Vermont, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in an argument concerning the fact and sig