The Dread Dimensions

By Tom Morris

A short horror story based on the Lovecraftian Necronomicon. Two academics thought they could unravel the secrets of this diabolical book but it destroyed them both.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Morris
• Release date: Mar 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466110762

Tom Morris

Tom Morris was a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame for fifteen years. Since leaving Notre Dame in 1994, he has gone on to become one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the country. Each year he is invited to give keynote addresses at major gatherings of executives at hundreds of the leading companies around the world. The author of True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence, he is also chairman of the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he makes his home.

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THE DREAD DIMENSIONS

By

Tom Morris

Published by Tom Morris at Smashwords

Copyright 2012, Tom Morris

All places, characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

When we look back I suppose we all see things we regret having done, things that if only we had made other decisions, followed other paths, how different our lives and the lives of others would have been. When those decisions, often thoughtlessly made, without any regard to the consequences, lead to the hideous death of a friend and to ourselves being taken to the brink of insanity, then how much more painful it is, how much more we are consumed with guilt.

It was some fifteen years ago that I came up to Leeds University to study and then to take up a junior lectureship in the Department of Chemistry. I had always had a fascination for this branch of science, dissolving scraps of metal in acids, precipitating strange coloured sludges from their solutions or growing multi-faceted crystals. The seeming