West was a materialist, believing in no soul and attributing all the working of consciousness to bodily phenomena; consequently he looked for no revelation of hideous secrets from gulfs and caverns beyond death's barrier.

His hideous secret was shut up in the room, and all its terrors were there; to his thinking it was not in the wood at all.

A maniacal glee convulsed his face as he screamed his hideous secret to the night, and his eyes looked like nothing this side of Hell.

They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.

The third, and longest, arc tells of a world-famous violinist who visits the town, bringing with him a hideous secret.

As hideous secrets get revealed day by day, an island of paradise slowly turns into an island of death.

Yes, there are some secrets so hideous that it is well for the world not to know them.

Now that it was out, the hideous secret was shared, Bliss searched the Jian's face.

But that was an accident, a result of another of the hideous secrets this planet conceals from us.

"An Egyptian of the 14th Dynasty, who told me the hideous secret of Nyarlathotep".