Abyss || “Cool Air” - Black and White Lovecraftian Short Film

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:53][music] >> You ask me why I am affected by cold air as I am.

[00:01:15]Why it repels me more than it does others.

[00:01:18]I can only answer by relating the circumstances. [music] In the spring of 1923, I took lodgings in a boarding house in New York.

[00:01:29]A shabby establishment, but not remarkable in any unusual respect.

[00:01:33][music] I was assigned a room on the third floor.

[00:01:38]It was soon made known to me that one room in the house was to be avoided.

[00:01:43]Room three.

[00:01:45]No reason [music] was offered beyond the statement that it was kept cold.

[00:01:51]At first, I assumed this to be a matter of poor heating.

[00:01:55]I was soon disabused of that notion.

[00:01:58]For the air near that part of the hall did not behave as air ordinarily does.

[00:02:05]It did not warm or circulate with the rest [music] of the building.

[00:02:09]It remained in a state of unnatural consistency.

[00:02:13]I was informed by the landlady that the room was occupied by a physician, a Dr. Muñoz.

[00:02:20]She spoke of him as eccentric [music] and reclusive.

[00:02:24]He did not leave his room.

[00:02:27]He conducted his own treatment there.

[00:02:30]I took no [music] special interest in the matter at that time.

[00:02:35]I first became aware of him indirectly.

[00:02:38]Not through meeting, but through effects. [music] There was a mechanical hum at irregular intervals [music] from behind the door.

[00:02:47]And a constant discharge of cold air which no structural [music] explanation appeared to account for.

[00:02:55]I began to suffer from recurring [music] attacks of illness during my stay.

[00:03:00]Weakness and sudden loss of vitality occurring without apparent cause.

[00:03:05]On one occasion, I was overcome in the corridor outside room three. [music] In my distress, I knocked upon the door.

[00:03:14]It was opened [music] only slightly.

[00:03:17]And I was admitted into the room beyond.

[00:03:20]A blast of cold air issued forth which was wholly unnatural in degree and quality.

[00:03:27]Within, I saw [music] Dr. Muñoz.

[00:03:31]He was a man of cultivated appearance, though markedly pale and cold to the touch.

[00:03:38]He did not inquire into my condition in the manner of a common practitioner.

[00:03:43]He examined me [music] briefly.

[00:03:45]And proceeded at once to adjustment.

[00:03:49]Whatever was administered to me was of a nature I cannot describe [music] with precision.

[00:03:55]Only that my condition was relieved in a remarkably short time.

[00:04:00]After this, I returned to him on several occasions.

[00:04:03][music] It became evident that his treatment was effective where others had failed.

[00:04:10]No change was observed in his appearance during this period, [music] nor in his manner, nor in the state of the room.

[00:04:19]It remained uniformly cold, artificially so.

[00:04:25]I came to rely upon his ministrations.

[00:04:28]The explanation of his condition was given to me as a matter of course.

[00:04:33]He suffered from a disorder requiring constant low temperature.

[00:04:38]Any rise [music] in heat would prove dangerous to him.

[00:04:42]This was maintained by mechanical refrigeration apparatus within the room.

[00:04:47]I accepted this explanation without further inquiry, until the night the machinery failed.

[00:04:55]There was a breakdown in the refrigerating system, and within a short time, the temperature of the room began to rise.

[00:05:04]During the night, the condition [music] of Dr. Muñoz altered abruptly, not through gradual decline, but through immediate collapse of function.

[00:05:15]When the room was finally entered, he was found in a state which [music] made further speculation unnecessary.

[00:05:24]It was then that I learned the truth of the matter.

[00:05:28]I examined the records of the boarding house, then the public death registry [music] to which his name led.

[00:05:35]There I found the entry, Dr. Carlos Muñoz, years deceased at the time of my residence.

[00:05:47]Yet the room in which I had conversed with him remained in continuous occupation during all that time.

[00:05:55]And I now understand >> [music] >> why I cannot endure the sensation of cold air.

[00:06:02]For it was not [music] merely a condition of the room.

[00:06:06]It was the means by which [music] something that had already ended was maintained in a state of continued existence until the maintenance ceased.

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