Some lose their way forever.' Adaptations The story ends with the statement that there are still strange occurrences in Crouch End, and that, very occasionally, people are known to '.lose their way. Doris returns to America with her children, where she attempts suicide and spends time in a mental hospital, but eventually learns to live with the memory of Crouch End and is released. The official investigation into his vanishing can find no leads, and Vetter reaches retirement age soon after he dies of a heart attack in his home six months later. Vetter returns from his walk just minutes later and can find no clue to his whereabouts. Farnham turns the corner at the bottom of the street and walks out of sight of the station - and is never seen again. Leaving the station empty, he walks down the street in search of Vetter, and notices that something seems strangely different about the neighborhood. Vetter goes out for a walk and, after contemplating the story for a while, Farnham wonders what has become of him. He speculates about other planes of existence, and of Crouch End perhaps being a location where the divide between our world and an alien, demonic world is somehow lesser. Newcomer Farnham dismisses the story as a delusion caused by mental illness, but Vetter, who has policed Crouch End for decades, is not so sure, remembering a number of similar missing-person cases from years gone by.

Lonnie was consumed by an enormous, hideous, otherworldly being implied to be the malevolent Lovecraftian goddess Shub-Niggurath, after which Doris fled and somehow found herself somehow back in the 'normal world' again. As they wandered the streets, their surroundings seemed to grow strange and threatening, before they encountered what appeared to be monstrous alien creatures. Nearly hysterical, Doris arrived in the station speaking of monsters and supernatural occurrences.Дoris relates how she and her husband got lost while searching for a potential employer's house in Crouch End. They discuss the case of Doris Freeman, a young American woman who came in to report the disappearance of her husband, lawyer Lonnie Freeman. Police constables Ted Vetter and Robert Farnham are working the night shift at a small station in the London suburb of Crouch End.

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