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The flesh and the seed of the fruit on the branch of the tree in the dream of the queen


Wednesday, December 19, 2007  

"Older than Memphis and Mankind"

The HPL Historical Society's holiday albums, collected together as An Unbearably Scary Solstice, look delightful, but the playlist seems to have one glaring omission, which I have endeavored to correct here. (To be fair, I'm sure it's not the first time such a thing has been attempted, but thus I contribute to the living folk tradition.)

Ahem -

On the 13th day of Mythos, Cthulhu gave to me:
13 polyps whistling
12 mi-go buzzing
11 daemons flauting
10 ghouls a-meeping
9 cultists chanting
8 nightgaunts tickling
7 byakhees flapping
6 deep ones baying
5 FORMLESS THINGS!
4 crawling worms
3 rat hordes
2 Great Old Ones
And a volume of necromancy.

Make the world a little better, and teach it to a child today.

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posted by Dan L-K | 11:59 AM
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vanishing, fading by and by
the same man in a different cloak
the cloth has a thousand laces
the crux and the cradle
sheathed in motley costume
arrow's path
just one strand
the scribes have all forgotten
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