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Acolyte, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1944
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Nephren-Ka The Black Pharaoh, used by me in Fane of the Black Pharaoh and Lovecraft in Haunter of the Dark... In his reign rose the secret Egyptian worship of Nyarlathotep. The Black Stone Figures importantly, of course, in Machen and Howard. HPL used references to its cryptic talismanic significance in Whisperer in Darkness. Dho Formula Elder magical incantation in books used by Wilbur Whately. (Dunwich Horror). Voorish Sign, Powder of lbn Ghazi The sign is a gesture of incantation, the powder magical...both used to make the Yog-Sothoth element visible in Dunwich Horror. Yr and Nhhngr Whateley used 'all the formulae from Yr to Nhhngr' in his efforts to seek knowledge...obviously taken from some book of secret witchcraft lore. ( (Dunwich Horror) Klarkash-Ton Don't forget him, the "Atlantean high priest" waggishly mentioned by HPL in Whisperer in Darkness. Luveh-Keraph I admit this stinks, but it's in Grinning Ghoul, and the "priest of mystic Bast" is apparently contemporaneous with Klarkash-Ton. Shining Trapezehedron The weird prismatic talisman found in the ancient steeple which admitted the Haunter of the Dark to earth...worshipped by the cult in ancient Providence. (Haunter of the Dark) "Well, there's a starter. I'm not trying to disparage friend Laney's tremendous effort, merely pointing out that the present listing is neither complete nor totally definitive." — Robert Bloch. "In the very interesting glossary of the Cthulhu mythology, your editor traces the place-name Chorazin back to M. R. James' Count Magnus, but no further. In Count Magnus, you remember, Mr. Wraxall asks the local pastor if he can tell him anything of it, and the pastor reminded him that "it had once been denounced." The reference is to a passage in the gospels, which it would be easy to locate with a concordance, in which that city and others are denounced by our lord for their hardness of heart in these, or nearly these words: 'Woo unto thee, Betheaich! Woe unto thee, Chorazin! For I say unto you, that it shall be more profitable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment than for you." There is of course no reason why a diabolically minded group of New York villagers should not have named this village after the impenitent town in the Bible, but I imagine Count Magnus must have made his pilgrimage to the Old-World Chorazin, He was the builder of that house 'which we should call Elizabethan if it were in England' and upper New York State would hardly have been settled in his time. "The other point is a minor one. In Kipling's Second Jungle Book, in the story Red Dog, are not the wild dogs called dholes? It is interesting to consider this as a possible source for the name of Lovecraft'e tribe of monsters," — Basil Davenport. LAST CALL! The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies, by Clark Ashton Smith. This handsomely printed brochure contains six of Smith's very best stories, including the otherwise unpublished Voyage of King Euvoran. All stories are considerably different than in their other appearances, because in this booklet they appear as Smith wrote them, and not edited by some outsider. Clark Ashton Smith has a small remainder of this edition, and as long as the limited supply lasts, he will send a copy postpaid for 50¢. If you request him to do so, he will autograph your copy to you. Clark Ashton Smith, Box 627, Auburn, California —39—
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Nephren-Ka The Black Pharaoh, used by me in Fane of the Black Pharaoh and Lovecraft in Haunter of the Dark... In his reign rose the secret Egyptian worship of Nyarlathotep. The Black Stone Figures importantly, of course, in Machen and Howard. HPL used references to its cryptic talismanic significance in Whisperer in Darkness. Dho Formula Elder magical incantation in books used by Wilbur Whately. (Dunwich Horror). Voorish Sign, Powder of lbn Ghazi The sign is a gesture of incantation, the powder magical...both used to make the Yog-Sothoth element visible in Dunwich Horror. Yr and Nhhngr Whateley used 'all the formulae from Yr to Nhhngr' in his efforts to seek knowledge...obviously taken from some book of secret witchcraft lore. ( (Dunwich Horror) Klarkash-Ton Don't forget him, the "Atlantean high priest" waggishly mentioned by HPL in Whisperer in Darkness. Luveh-Keraph I admit this stinks, but it's in Grinning Ghoul, and the "priest of mystic Bast" is apparently contemporaneous with Klarkash-Ton. Shining Trapezehedron The weird prismatic talisman found in the ancient steeple which admitted the Haunter of the Dark to earth...worshipped by the cult in ancient Providence. (Haunter of the Dark) "Well, there's a starter. I'm not trying to disparage friend Laney's tremendous effort, merely pointing out that the present listing is neither complete nor totally definitive." — Robert Bloch. "In the very interesting glossary of the Cthulhu mythology, your editor traces the place-name Chorazin back to M. R. James' Count Magnus, but no further. In Count Magnus, you remember, Mr. Wraxall asks the local pastor if he can tell him anything of it, and the pastor reminded him that "it had once been denounced." The reference is to a passage in the gospels, which it would be easy to locate with a concordance, in which that city and others are denounced by our lord for their hardness of heart in these, or nearly these words: 'Woo unto thee, Betheaich! Woe unto thee, Chorazin! For I say unto you, that it shall be more profitable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment than for you." There is of course no reason why a diabolically minded group of New York villagers should not have named this village after the impenitent town in the Bible, but I imagine Count Magnus must have made his pilgrimage to the Old-World Chorazin, He was the builder of that house 'which we should call Elizabethan if it were in England' and upper New York State would hardly have been settled in his time. "The other point is a minor one. In Kipling's Second Jungle Book, in the story Red Dog, are not the wild dogs called dholes? It is interesting to consider this as a possible source for the name of Lovecraft'e tribe of monsters," — Basil Davenport. LAST CALL! The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies, by Clark Ashton Smith. This handsomely printed brochure contains six of Smith's very best stories, including the otherwise unpublished Voyage of King Euvoran. All stories are considerably different than in their other appearances, because in this booklet they appear as Smith wrote them, and not edited by some outsider. Clark Ashton Smith has a small remainder of this edition, and as long as the limited supply lasts, he will send a copy postpaid for 50¢. If you request him to do so, he will autograph your copy to you. Clark Ashton Smith, Box 627, Auburn, California —39—
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