References, Lovecraft and otherwise

[NGW]

Another much loved reference I found.

After the sewers, where you come up the ladder into the room surrounded by doors. After you go down the long stairway and into the room at the end of it, where the guy is chained up and someone is asking you to help them, to pull a lever or whatever...the metal cylinder starts talking to you, I assume it has the brain in it that belongs to the body you see chained up. Shades of my all time favorite Lovecraft story, "The Whisperer in Darkness" there.