I fainted, then I walked away.

[bar1scorpio]

I think I figured out part of why he always does that.

If he wrote out some harrowing escape, it might draw attention away from that brain-blasting revelation.  Not only is it not important to the theme of the story, but the risk is people would pay more attention to the escape from the thing than the thing itself.

[Chris Lackey]

Huh. Good point.

[old book]

Shadow over Innsmouth has a semi-harrowing escape sequence, but then the protagonist kind of falls asleep by some railroad tracks and wakes up dissheveled and somewhat groggy, iirc. There are some moments, though, when you're not quite sure he'll pole-vault out of the old YMCA successfully, or make it through the fish-men thronged streets...