 He explains the circumstances surrounding Curwen's death, and that the townspeople blame the deformities on the curse.He tells them of a black magic book, the "Necronomicon", believed to have been in Curwen's possession, and which Curwen used to summon the Elder Gods Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth.Curwen's plan was to mate mortal women with these beings in order to create a race of super-humans, which led to the deformities.