This is quite serious. We are only two days from the 24th of June!
This is quite serious. We are only two days from the 24th of June!
Robert E. Howard is the actual author of the short story "The Black Stone."
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108519370562974867702/posts/YJK7JzwZCQM
Robert E. Howard is the actual author of the short story "The Black Stone."
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108519370562974867702/posts/YJK7JzwZCQM
Thank you again. My mind slipped after tyring to decipher the chickenscratch handwriting all night.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU, Daniel Richter . I anxiously away the opportunity to examine the scans. What's been released so far is disturbing enough, though. There are books on my shelf that have gathered dust for a reason, ideas best not kept too close to the light. I open them again with a heavy heart.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean I should head to Cross Planes on the 24th?
ReplyDeleteThere are no coincidences.
ReplyDeleteGlad I could help, mate.
ReplyDeleteAlso, building on the Howard & Lovecraft connection, the "lurking in corners" part reminds me of the Hounds Of Tildanos.
ReplyDeletePlus Robert E. Howard spent most of his life in Cross Plains. Ach if only I wasn't that far away.
ReplyDeleteHoward was a friend and protégé of Lovecraft, and it's believed that - while their content crossed often - this story may be the closest of style to HPL's.
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ReplyDelete"The Old Ones were, the Old ones are and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen... They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons."
I thought Solstice this year was on the 21st?
ReplyDeleteMidsummer isn't the solstice. It is the midpoint between the "quarter days" May 1 and August 1.
ReplyDeleteMore from the Necronomicon (via "The Dunwich Horror"):
ReplyDelete"They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons."
The old quarter days (2/2, 5/1, 8/1 and 10/31) were the auspicious times to do the rites that could invoke the Old Ones.