A mass of writhing tentacles and oozing flesh. Looking directly into its thousand eyes causes insanity, self-mutilation, and incomprehensible speech. ATOMIS With unutterable sound surged the Great Ones beyond the worlds. Beyond the Gates of the Elder Ones--beyond the worlds themselves, and into the spaces where matter and space meet--bore Shantak-Shapes monstrous and unformed, shapeless and mindless, and demanding a name in the aeon-long silence. Mutation and decay rend the Ultimate Ones as they wheel and flop fearfully across titan gulfs, and star-headed nebulae leap screaming from inconceivable depths to throbbing cenotaphs on bronze pedestals. Time and space--formless opposites--opposite ...