Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu Path: news1.delphi.com!news.delphi.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!imci2!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!news.compulink.co.uk!cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet From: jharrisb@cix.compulink.co.uk ("James Harris") Subject: Re: A Lovecraft Christmas Message-ID: Organization: Compulink Information eXchange References: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:55:55 GMT X-News-Software: Ameol Lines: 51 On 12-12-95 Paul Lemieux wrote:- > A Lovecraft Christmas > by Paul M. Lemieux > copyright 1989 > > (With apologies to Clement Moore) > > Twas the night before Yuletide and all through the hole > Not a creature was stirring, not even a Dhole > Aldebaren hung at the right place at nine > In the hopes that Great Cthulhu would come out this time > > The fungi from Yuggoth, all snug in their caves > Were plotting to turn all the people to slaves > The Deep Ones in Rlyeh, the Ghouls in their graves > Were dancing and singing and acting depraved > > When what do my wondering eyes should appear > But a mouldering sleigh and eight corpselike reindeer > With a horrible driver so leprous and reeking > I knew right away that my fear was unspeaking > > The reindeer were gross, as they flew up from hell > And It hoarsely whispered and chanted a spell > Ia Shub Niggurath! Cthulhu ftagn! > Nyarlathotep! I summon you on! > > As decomposed flesh before the charnel stench rise > And meet with the open air polluting the skies > Up to the housetop the horror it rose > And the gangrenous odors assailed my nose > > And then in a slopping noise heard on the roof > The lumbering clomping of octopoid hoofs > As I drew in my head and was turning around > The horror lurched into my room with a bound > > Its eyes how they pulsate > So bulbous and gory > This blasphemous creature > So noxious and hoary > > I was frozen by fear, my feet woudn't run > I threw up my cookies, this wasn't much fun > It whispered my name and said "You come with I" > I tried to refuse and it said "Then you die" > > It came at my throat with its grim claws extended > But a miracle saved its victim intended > I had three Elder Signs in a slot in the floor > It screamed with a fiendish sound and went out the door > > It sprang to its sleigh, and its team gave a surge > And away they all flew to the sound of a dirge > I heard it exclaim as it flew out of sight > You're lucky this time, for the stars weren't right. > [snip] Thanks!, I enjoyed that. Jim.