Book of ye Dead Names

where ye reader will discover Ye Testimony of Abl-Al Hazred , your servant. Ye book reveals ye places of wonder I visited, ye unearthly horrors I encountered, which lead me to forsakin madness as show in my diary, Ye diary of a madman. !or it must be madness to believe in ye thin s I have seen, in ye rituals I have performed, in the places I have been and the Times I have visited.

Ye "eader will find throu hout these pa es ye sum of all knowled e I have collected durin this maddenin #ourney. $ay this book take place that of a warnin a ainst the Thin s that are %aitin &etween %orlds...

Ye &rood of the 'ark (tars will be revealed to the reader. Here are tales of ancient history, stories known only by a few, for they caused unprepared "eaders to seek their peace within uncanny madness.

)eaceful is the i norant man whose vision of *arth is bounded by hills and the seas behind. (uch a man lives on a small island of i norance, unaware of the oceans of maddenin absurdities surroundin this small world. +f Ye +ld +nes and their (pawn, or ye narration of ye Horrors that +nce ,ame to *arth, the way they fell down and how (hall ,ome back . he +ld +nes were, the +ld +nes are and the +ld +nes shall be. !rom the dark stars They came ere man was born, unseen and loathsome They descended to primal earth. &eneath the oceans They brooded while a es past, till seas ave up the land, whereupon They swarmed forth in Their multitudes and darkness ruled the *arth. At the frozen )oles They raised mi hty cities, and upon hi h places the temples of Those whom nature owns not and the -ods have cursed. And the spawn of the +ld +nes covered the *arth, and Their children endureth throu hout the a es. Ye shantaks of .en are the work of Their hands, the -hasts who dwelleth in /in0s primordial vaults know Them as their .ords. They have fathered the 1a-Ha and the -aunts that ride the 1i ht2 -reat ,thulhu is Their brother, the sha oths Their slaves. The 'holes do homa e unto Them in the ni hted vale of )noth and -u s sin Their

praises beneath the peaks of ancient Throk. They have walked amidst the stars and They have walked the *arth. The ,ity of Irem in the reat desert has known Them2 .en in the ,old %aste has seen Their passin , the timeless citadel upon the cloudvieled hei hts of unknown 3adath beareth Their mark. %antonly the +ld +nes trod the ways of darkness and Their blasphemies were reat upon the *arth2 all creation bowed beneath Their mi ht and knew Them for Their wickedness. And the *lder .ords opened Their eyes and beheld the abominations of Those that rava ed the *arth. In Their wrath They set their hand a ainst the +ld +nes, stayin Them in the midst of Their ini4uity and castin Them forth from the *arth to the 5oid beyond the planes where chaos rei ns and form abideth not. And the *lder .ords set Their seal upon the -ateway and the power of the +ld +nes prevailest not a ainst its mi ht. .oathsome ,thulhu rose then from the deeps and ra ed with e6ceedin reat fury a ainst the *arth -uardians. And They bound his venomous claws with potent spells and sealed him up within the ,ity of "0lyeh wherein beneath the waves he shall sleep death0s dream until the end of the Aeon. &eyond the -ate dwell now the +ld +nes2 not in the spaces known unto men but in the an les betwi6t

them. +utside *arth0s plane They lin er and ever awaite the time of Their return2 for the *arth has known Them and shall know Them in time yet to come. And the +ld +nes hold foul and formless Azathoth for Their $aster abd Abide with Him in the black cavern at the centre of all infinity, where he naws ravenously in ultimate chaos amid the mad beatin of hidden drums, the tuneless pipin of hideous flutes and the ceaseless bellowin of blind idiot ods that shamble and esture aimlessly for ever.

The soul of Azathoth dwelleth in Yo -sothoth and He shall beckon unto the +ld +nes when the stars mark the time of Their comin 2 for Yo -sothoth is the -ate throu h which Those of the 5oid will re-enter. Yo sothoth knowest the mazes of of time, for all time is one unto Him. He knowest where the +ld +nes came forth in time alon lon past and where They shall come forth a ain when the cycle returneth. After day cometh ni ht2 man0s day shall pass, and They shall rule where They once ruled. As foulness you shall know them and Their accursedness shall stain the *arth. Ye +ld +nes and Ancient Times will reveal ye "eader more about ye ori ins of Ye +ld +nes and Their !oretold !uture.

his is ye story of Ye ,omin -'own of ye +ld +nes to *arth, how they left Ye -ates where They were waitin and ye horrors and wonders they left on their path. Ye +ld +nes came to *arth, some say They created $ankind as slaves for their wicked hun er. Ye +ld +nes came to *arth, but they did not brin .ife there. .on before Their arrival, 7bbo-(athla dwelt in ye steamin fens of ye new made *arth, for 7bbo-(athla is ye source and ye end. This is a story of ancient times, lon before $ankind. !or ye demise of ye +ld +nes is for lon one. (ome

wise scholars tried to e6plain their demise by odd correspondances with earthly elements. This vision shall not fool ye "eader - by essence, ye +ld +nes are not ruled by human motives. Their lo ic is twisted, and mysterious are their ways. Yet ye +ld +nes are not one. They wait, sealed in for otten places, where they dream for ye time when ye (tars will be ri ht a ain. &eyond ye subterranean %all, Y0 olonac sleeps, driven out of his dream by ye summonnin of those who seek evil.

Of Y'golonac

*ven the minions of ,thulhu dare not speak of Y0 olonac2 yet the time will come when Y0 olonac strides forth from the lonliness of aeons to walk once more amon men ... &eyond a ulf in the subterranean ni ht a passa e leads beyond the wall where rises Y0 olonac to be served by the tattered eyeless fi ures of the dark. .on has he slept beyond the wall, and those which crawl over the bricks scuttle across his body never knowin it to be Y0 olonac2 but when his name is spoken or read he comes forth to be worshipped or to feed and take on the shape and soul of those he feeds upon. !or those who read of evil and search for its form within their minds call forth evil, and so may Y0 olonac return to walk amon men and await that time when the earth is cleared off and ,thulhu rises from his tomb amon the weeds, -laaki thrusts open the crystal trapdoor, the brood of *ihort are born into dayli ht, (hub-1i urath strides forth to smash the moon-lens, &yatis bursts forth from his prison, 'aoloth tears away illusion to e6pose the reality concealed behind, Aphoom /hah rises from the bowels of Yarak at the ultimate and boreal pole, -hatanothoa emer es from his crypt beneath the mountaintop fortress of Yaddith- -ho in eldritch $u, and /oth-+mmo ascends from the ocean deeps. Ia8 1yarlathotep8 &y their very ima es shall ye con#ure them. This is not a vain prophecy, for ye .e acy of Ye +ld +nes is so very real, as it will be shown to the "eader...

only then They shall return, for That is 1ot 'ead, which can *ternal .ie, yet with (tran e A*ons, *ven 'eath may 'ie. Ye +ld +nes dream and wait. They feed on human dreams, and Their dreams feed human ni htmares, takin the weave of dream from most people and ivin only to a few, doomed chosen +nes who are tau ht about Ancient Times, places or le ends lon for otten, like the one of ,yae ha %ho 'id 1ot 3now It *6isted, or the 'ream-%itch Yidhra. Hence They shall never be for otten, only by a few. Ye +ld +nes dream and wait. Yet *arth is still stained by Their presence. 'eep within the nethermost caverns, Ye %orm That -naws rows and feeds. The "eader who wants to become Traveler shall prepare himself lon a o for a #ourney into such places...

Book of Places
Ye "eader willin to start a #ourney in ye places described in this book shall be prepared to be revealed ye mysteries of unearthly places. (ome still remain, of others nothin is left than whispered le ends of doom and destruction. !ew are ye ones who could visit such places, and even fewer are those who came back from ye #ourney with enou h sanity left to tell about them. *arthly )laces will be described first, for ye Traveller may reach them with human ways. Then will be shown +uter )laces, where ye +ld +nes came from and where They shall return one day. These are not possible to see without ye help of an +ld +ne or one of Their !ollowers, for they are most often located

beyond ye walls of Time and (pace. $ore peculiar are ye last places shown in this book, for they were created by mankind dreams in a stran e realm. (killed Travellers may o there physically, throu h ates and doors. 'reams are yet ye easiest way to visit these cities and ye lands around them. +f *arthly places, and ye hidden cities where Ye +ld +nes wait and dream. Ye +ld +nes came, and they built their own places. $ost of them were ,yclopean cities, raised by Ye +ld +nes or destroyed by Them. $ade of black obsidian and ever stron basalt, they were built to ye ima e of their $akers 9 hu e alleys where They can %alk on %inds, countless pillars and towers risin to ye skies like filthy claws, shiny domes and crystal windows, from where they could watch ye (tars They ,ame !rom. .en in Ye ,old %aste is one of those cities, hidden halfway between this world and ye realms of 'reams in ye northernmost lands of *arth. Hidden as well in ye furnace of a burnin desert lies Irem +f Thousand )illars, dressed like a #ewel behind a wall of sand. +thers are places where one of Them has been banished and is waitin , dreamin of ye Times when they shall rule a ain. ,thulhu is locked away in a sunken stone city called "0lyeh beneath ye *astern +cean, close to ye lost continent of $u. His son

-hatanothoa lays within ye mountain of $u. His second son, Ytho tha, was imprisoned in a chasm in Yhe, a $uvian province. /oth-+mmo lay chained beneath ye ocean off ye :Island of ye (acred (tone ,ities.: 7bbo-(athla, ye source and ye end lay confined forever at ye subterranean place referred to only as : ray-litten Y04aa, beneath ancient Hyperborea. These are not empty places however. (ervents and minions still lurk in ye dark corners of titanic streets. In addition to ye dan ers of such #ourney, ye Traveller shall be prepared to face ye +nes who still worship Them in ye 'ark. %ith much wisdom and mastery of the Art of Arcanes, ye Traveller may find there artefacts and allies to start an even more dan erous #ourney 2 the very path of ye +uter )laces, where ye +ld +nes came from and where some are still dreamin .

In +uter (pace most of these places are, for ye +ld +nes came from ye 'ark (tars. Tsatho ua was ye first, he came from dim ,ykranosh not lon after ye creation of life on this planet. His brother 5ulthoom descended upon dyin $ars. -reat ,thulhu came hither ne6t from distant dim reen double star ;oth, with His (pawns, ye 'eep +nes and ye -oddess-&itch (hub-1i urath followed them soon after from ni htmare-rumored Yaddith. Hastur ye 7nspeakable left dark Yu oth to stain the soil of *arth in its prime. !tha ua, dwelt on a world called 3tyn a. +f ye +ld +nes, not all came on *arth. Ye 'emon(ultan Azathoth, Him %ho Is 1ot To &e 1amed, lurks ever on that dark world near Aldebaran in ye Hyades. .ikewise, ,thu ha chose for His abode ye star !omalhaut. To visit such places, ye Traveller shall be patient. +nly a few chosen are allowed to travel throu h time and space and see by themselves ye very places where They were born. *ither madness or 'eath is the toll for such a #ourney. However, it is possible, as ye followin chapters will show, to open %indows or -ates thou h which one may look upon Ye 'ark (tars. Ye ritual has a risk thou h, for Ye +ld +nes or Their $inions may feel your aze and track you down unmercifully. <Translator0s note 9 Abdul Al-Hazred died in 'amascus, circa =>? A.'. +f his final death or disappearance many terrible and conflictin thin s are told. He is said by *bn 3hallikan @ABth century bio rapherC to have

been siezed by an invisible monster in broad dayli ht and devoured horribly before a lar e number of fri htfrozen witnesses. It is probable one of these :%atchers: finally found him.D Ye reader must be aware that The +ld +nes are not the only makers of cyclopean cities. $ankind une6pectedly created the most beautiful countries, a place even Ancient -ods chose to rest peacefully. (ome call that holly place, beyond the (ilver 3ey 'oor, Ye .ands of 'reams.

Book of Summoning
Y^e adventurous Reader has to remember al ays !ho he ill e"#ose himself to hen trying to summon One of $hem% &or it is a highly ha'ardeous thing to trouble the Dream of $he Old Ones% $here are times( #laces and rules to res#ect% $he #atient and clever Reader ill learn of Ye $imes and Ye Seasons to be Observed and to Raise u# Ye Stones before starting to #ractice% )ee# in mind $hey can rarely be banished easily% $heir ills are strange and strange is $heir logic%

!ith care and devotion( the Reader may use ye *d+uration of ,reat -thulhu or learn to Summon Shub.Niggurath Ye Black $o be thaught about strange times or travel ithout moving( the Reader may ant to -all &orth Yog.Sothoth% $here is a different Ritual for summoning Yog.Sothoth and o#ening the ,ate for troubled times% Other /igher Beings may teach the Reader about #ast or future events% $his is the #rocedure for the invocation of /e !ho 0ies Beyond the 1eil and !ho Shall $ear 2t *sunder at the time of the ,reat Dying% $he Render may im#art the the ha##enings of the #ast and future ith greater accuracy than even that -athay volume of good re#ute%

Book of 3aterials

ise Reader

ill find in these #ages all the

necessary devices for ye #ractice of Ye *rt% Po ders( $alismans( 2ncenses( 4nctions may become useful allies on the road to )no ledge% Be advised of such #rotective devices by this note ritten by a skilled sorcerer before his sudden dis#arition% 2f thou ish to bind the S#irits to $hy !ill( thou shall -om#ound Ye 2ncense of 5kauba and #roceed carefully% $o observe the airial manifestations of the s#irits( 3ake Ye Po der of 2bn ,ha'i( and do not des#ise the 6lder Sign% $rue visions of time yet to come shall be grabted by using Ye 4nction of )he#hnes Ye 6gy#tian% $o &ashion the Scimitar of Bar'ai( follo these rules attentively and thou shall be granted of its virtue%

Book of Signs

Ye 1erb is #o erful% *s #o erful are Signs( Symbols and Scri#tures% *dvised Readers shall learn #rotective signs( sacred seals and ancient languages in order to #erform ell% $he im#ortance of signs should not be ignored( for $hy life shall de#end on them% Ye *l#habet of Nug.Soth is one key to ye talismanic art and in all ye sacred inscri#tions% $hey shall be used in addition to #otent signs and sacred seals%

Book of Rituals

a'ardeous is the road to $rue )no ledge and mastery of the *rcanes% Only fools can try to #erform rituals ithout kno ing about the Old Ones and 6arth 3agick to the #erfection% Such foolish attem#s are bound to fail% !hosoever #erformeth Ye Ritual of Dho./na ith true understanding shall #ass beyond ye ,ates of -reation and enter ye 4ltimate *byss herein d elleth ye va#ourous 0ord S'ngac ho eternally #ondereth ye 3ystery of -haos%

Of Ye -oming.Do n of ye Old Ones

Of ye coming.do n of ye ,reat Old Ones from ye stars( it is ritten in ye Book of 6ibon that ye first ho came hither as ye black thing( even $sathoggua( ho came hence from dim -ykranosh not long after ye creation of life on this #lanet% Not through ye starry s#aces came $sathoggua( but by ye dimensions that lie bet een them( and of /is advent u#on this #lanet( the #lace thereof as ye unlitten and subterraneous gulf of N'kai( herein hose gloomy de#ths /e lingered for innumerable cycles( as 6ibon saith( before emerging into ye u##er orld% *nd after this it as ye ,reat -thulhu came hither ne"t( and all /is s#a n from distant 7oth( and ye Dee# Ones and ye

loathsome Yuggs ho be $heir minions8 and Shub.Niggurath from nightmare. rumored Yaddith( and all they that serve /er( even ye 0ittle Peo#le of ye !ood% But of ye ,reat Old Ones begotten by *'athoth in ye #rime( not all came do n to this 6arth( for /im !ho 2s Not $o Be Named lurks ever on that dark orld near *ldebaran in ye /yades( and it as /is sons ho descended hither in /is #lace% 0ike ise( -thugha chose for /is abode ye star &omalhaut( hereu#on /e begat ye dread *#hoom 5hah8 and -thugha abideth yet on &omalhaut( and ye &ire.1am#ires that serve /im8 but as for *#hoom 5hah( he descended to this 6arth and d elleth yet in his fro'en realm% *nd terrible 1ulthoom( that a ful thing that be brother to black $sathoggua( /e descende u#on dying 3ars in /is might( hich orld /e chose for /is dominion% No it is also ritten of those of ye Begotten of *'athoth ho abide not ithin ye secret #laces of ye 6arth( that hen ye ,reat Old Ones came do n from ye stars in ye misty #rime $hey brought ye image and likeness of $heir Brethern ith $hem% 2n this ise( it as ye Outer Ones that serve /astur ye 4ns#eakable( brought do n ye Shining $ra#e'ohedron from dark Yuggoth on ye Rim( hereu#on had it been fashioned ith curious art in ye days ere 6arth had yet brought forth its first life% *nd it as

through ye Shining $ra#e'ohedron( that is ye very talisman of dread Nyarlathote#( that ye ,reat Old Ones summoned to $heir aid ye might of ye -ra ling -haos in ye hour of $heir great need( hat time ye 6lder ,ods came hither in $heir rath% 0ike ise( it as ye Dee# Ones ho carried to this orld ye a ful likeness of ser#ent.bearded Byatis( son of Yig( hereby as /e orshi##ed( first by ye shado y 1alusians before ye advent of man on this #lanet( and yet later by ye d ellers in #rimal 3u% &or ye ,reat Old Ones had forseen ye day and ye hour of $heir need( hen that $hey must summon to $heir side those of $heir a esome Brethren ho had taken far orlds for ye #lace of $heir abiding( and had brought hither these images for this very #ur#ose% No of these star. made eidolons( little there is that is kno n to men8 it is said they ere rought by strange talimanic art( and that ye sorcerers and ye i'ards of this $errene s#here are not deemed orthy by ye ,reat Old Ones to be instructed in ye secrets thereof% But it is his#ered in certain old( forbidden books an a esome #o er lurks ithin such images( and that through them( as through strange indo s in time and s#ace( $hose that d ell afar can sometimes be evoked and

summoned hither( as $hey ere hen that it came to #ass( in the fullness of time( ye 6lder ,ods descended on this orld in $heir rath% *nd there be those that orshi# ye ,reat Old Ones through their image and likeness( but of this ye must be ary( for such eidolons be uncanny( and betimes are kno n to drink ye lives of they that handle them un isely( or ho seek through such images to summon to this s#here $hose far off and better left undisturbed% Neither is it holly ithin ye kno ledge of men to destroy such images( and many there be that sought ye destruction thereof( ho found their o n destruction8 but against such images from beyond ye stars ye 6lder Sign hath very great #o er( although ye must be are lest in ye conflict bet i"t $hat hich you evoke to destroy ye likeness of $hat hich slumbereth afar( you be not consumed and s allo ed u#( or be yourself destroyed thereby( and that utterly( even unto your immortal soul%

Of $he Old Ones and the ,ates

-oncerning the Old Ones( it is ritten( they ait ever at the ,ate% and the ,ate is all #laces at all times( for $hey kno nothing of time or #lace but are in all time and in all #lace together ithout a##earing to be( and there are those amongst $hem hich can assume diverse Sha#es and &eatures and any given Sha#e and any given &ace and the ,ates are for $hem

every here( but the first% as that hich 2 caused to be o#ened( namely in 2rem( the -ity of Pillars( the -ity under the Desert( but herever men sayeth the forbidden !ords( they shall cause there a ,ate to be established and shall ait u#on $hem !ho -ome through the ,ate( even as the Dhols( and the *bominable 3i.,o( and the $cho.$cho #eo#le( and the Dee# Ones( and the ,ugs( and the ,aunts of the Night and the Shoggoths and the 1oormis( and the Shantaks hich guard )adath in the -old !aste and the Plateau of 0eng% *ll are alike the -hildren of the 6lder ,ods( but the ,reat Race of Yith and the ,reat Old Ones failing to agree( one ith another( and both ith the 6lder ,ods( se#erated( leaving the ,reat Old Ones in #ossession of the 6arth( hile the ,reat Race( returning from Yith took u# $heir *bode for ard in $ime in 6arth.0and not yet kno n to those ho alk the 6arth today( and there ait till there shall come again the inds and the 1oices hich drove $hem forth before and $hat hich !alketh on the !inds over the 6arth and in the s#aces that are among the Stars forever%

Of ye Old Ones and 6lements

Sagon as referred to as 90eader of ye Dee# Ones9( but he as not ye #rimary !ater .Being orshi#ed% 2ndeed it as ye very son of /im hom Dagon and ye Dee# Ones served% $he i'ards of ye sea.god cult called him 5oth. Ommog( ye D eller in ye Dee#s( one of ye : sons of -thulhu ho had been mighty gods in elder 3u before ye cataclysm destroyed that shado . haunted and #rimal continent in #rehistoric times% 6arly man had orshi#ed a #antheon of divinities that had come do n from ye stars hen ye 6arth as young% $hese beings ere essentially malign and had ruled man through fear( being more demons than gods8 ye most common term for them as 9ye Old Ones(9 and they ere not even remotely human.like% $hey had some innate corres#ondences to ye four elements of earth( air( fire and ater; for e"am#le( ye chief divinity( a inged( octo#us.

headed monstrosity named -thulhu( as a sea. elemental8 his half.brother( /astur( as an air. elemental <and costantly at odds ith -thulhu=8 another( named -thugha( as a fire.elemental( and so on% $hese ere kno n as ye ,reat Old Ones( and subservient to them as a second grou# of minor entities called ye 0esser Old Ones( com#rised of beings ho served ye ,reat Old Ones as leaders of their minions or servants% &or e"am#le( ye minions of -thulhu ere called ye Dee# Ones( led by &ather Dagon and 3other /ydra( and ye minions of -thugha ere ye so. called 9&lame.-reatures(9 hose leader &thaggua( d elt on a orld called )tynga( hile ye great air.elemental( /astur( as served by ye Outer Ones( under their leader N'gha.)thun% $hese beings ere identified ith ye famous *bominable 3i.,o% $hese Old Ones having arred against and been defeated by a su#erior( rival #antheon called ye 6lder ,ods( ho either banished them to distant stars <as -thugha to &omalhaut and /astur to *ldebaran=( or im#risoned them at various #laces u#on ye 6arth% -thulhu himself they locked a ay in a sunken stone city called R'lyeh beneath ye Pacific8 his son ,hatanothoa they sealed ithin ye mountain on 3u( and his second son( Ythogtha( as im#risoned in a chasm in Yhe( a 3uvian #rovince( hile 5oth. Ommog lay chained beneath ye ocean off ye 92sland of ye Sacred Stone -ities%9

-thulhu had fathered : godlings on a female entity named 2dhyaa( ho d elt on or near ye 9dim green double star( 7oth(9 in ye aeons before his descent to this #lanet% $hus ye materials relating to -thulhu and his sons is sometimes called ye 7othic 0egend.-ycle% *s for ye t in leaders of this rebellion( *'athoth ye Demon.Sultan and 4bbo.Sathla( the 4nbegotten Source( they ere reduced to idiocy by ye 6lder ,ods( ho thrust *'athoth beyond ye #hysical universe into #rimal -haos from hich he can never return( hile 4bbo.Sathla they confined forever at ye subterranean #lace referred to only as 9gray.litten Y'>aa( beneath ancient /y#erborea%

Book of ye Old Ones

Ye Old Ones and *ncient $imes

$his is ye story of Ye -oming.Do n of ye Old Ones to 6arth( ho they left Ye ,ates here $hey ere aiting and ye horrors and onders they left on their #ath% Ye Old Ones came to 6arth( some say $hey created 3ankind as slaves for their icked hunger% Ye Old Ones came to 6arth( but they did not bring 0ife there% 0ong before $heir arrival( 4bbo.Sathla d elt in ye steaming fens of ye ne made 6arth( for 4bbo.Sathla is ye source and ye end% $his is a story of ancient times( long before 3ankind% &or ye demise of ye Old Ones is for long gone% Some ise scholars tried to e"#lain their demise by odd corres#ondences ith earthly elements% $his vision shall not fool ye Reader . by essence( ye Old Ones are not ruled by human motives% $heir logic is t isted( and mysterious are their ays%

Yet ye Old Ones are not gone% $hey ait( sealed in forgotten #laces( here they dream for ye time hen ye Stars ill be right again% Beyond ye subterranean !all( Y'golonac slee#s( driven out of his dream by ye summoning of those ho seek evil%

Of Y'golonac
6ven the minions of -thulhu dare not s#eak of Y'golonac8 yet the time ill come hen Y'golonac strides forth from the loneliness of aeons to alk once more among men %%% Beyond a gulf in the subterranean night a #assage leads beyond the all here rises Y'golonac to be served by the tattered eyeless figures of the dark% 0ong has he sle#t beyond the all( and those hich cra l over the bricks scuttle across his body never kno ing it to be Y'golonac8 but hen his name is s#oken or read he comes forth to be orshi##ed or to feed and take on the sha#e and soul of those he feeds u#on% &or those ho read of evil and search for its form ithin their minds call forth evil( and so may Y'golonac return to alk among men and a ait that time hen the earth is cleared off and -thulhu rises from his tomb among the eeds( ,laaki thrusts o#en the crystal tra#door( the brood of 6ihort are born into daylight( Shub. Niggurath strides forth to smash the moon.lens( Byatis bursts forth from his #rison( Daoloth tears a ay illusion to e"#ose the reality

concealed behind( *#hoom 5hah rises from the bo els of Yarak at the ultimate and boreal #ole( ,hatanothoa emerges from his cry#t beneath the mountainto# fortress of Yaddith. ,ho in eldritch 3u( and 5oth.Ommog ascends from the ocean dee#s% 2a? Nyarlathote#? By their very images shall ye con+ure them% $his is not a vain #ro#hecy( for ye 0egacy of Ye Old Ones is so very real( as it ill be sho n to the Reader%%%

Only then $hey shall return( for $hat is Not Dead( hich can 6ternal 0ie( yet ith Strange *6ons( 6ven Death may Die% Ye Old Ones dream and ait% $hey feed on human dreams( and $heir dreams feed human nightmares( taking the eave of dream from most #eo#le and giving only to a fe ( doomed chosen Ones ho are taught about *ncient $imes( #laces or legends long forgotten( like the one of -yaegha !ho Did Not )no 2t 6"isted( or the Dream.!itch Yidhra% /ence $hey shall never be forgotten( only by a fe % Ye Old Ones dream and ait% Yet 6arth is still stained by $heir #resence% Dee# ithin the nethermost caverns( Ye !orm $hat ,na s gro s and feeds% $he Reader ho ants to

become $raveler shall #re#are himself long ago for a +ourney into such #laces%%%

Book of Places

Ye Reader illing to start a +ourney in ye #laces described in this book shall be #re#ared to be

revealed ye mysteries of unearthly #laces% Some still remain( of others nothing is left than his#ered legends of doom and destruction% &e are ye ones ho could visit such #laces( and even fe er are those ho came back from ye +ourney ith enough sanity left to tell about them% 6arthly Places ill be described first( for ye $raveller may reach them ith human ays% $hen ill be sho n Outer Places( here ye Old Ones came from and here $hey shall return one day% $hese are not #ossible to see ithout ye hel# of an Old One or one of $heir &ollo ers( for they are most often located beyond ye alls of $ime and S#ace% 3ore #eculiar are ye last #laces sho n in this book( for they ere created by mankind dreams in a strange realm% Skilled $ravellers may go there #hysically( through gates and doors% Dreams are yet ye easiest ay to visit these cities and ye lands around them% Of 6arthly #laces( and ye hidden cities Old Ones ait and dream%%% here Ye

Book of Places Of 6arthly #laces

Ye Old Ones came( and they built their o n #laces% 3ost of them ere -yclo#ean cities( raised by Ye Old Ones or destroyed by $hem% 3ade of black obsidian and ever strong basalt( they ere built to ye image of their 3akers ; huge alleys here $hey can !alk on !inds( countless #illars and to ers rising to ye skies like filthy cla s( shiny domes and crystal indo s( from here they could atch ye Stars $hey -ame &rom% 0eng in Ye -old !aste is one of those cities( hidden half ay bet een this orld and ye realms of Dreams in ye northernmost lands of 6arth% /idden as ell in ye furnace of a burning desert lies 2rem Of $housand Pillars( dressed like a +e el behind a all of sand% Others are #laces here one of $hem has been banished and is aiting( dreaming of ye $imes hen they shall rule again% -thulhu is locked a ay in a sunken stone city called R'lyeh

beneath ye 6astern Ocean( close to ye lost continent of 3u% /is son ,hatanothoa lays ithin ye mountain of 3u% /is second son( Ythogtha( as im#risoned in a chasm in Yhe( a 3uvian #rovince% 5oth.Ommog lay chained beneath ye ocean off ye 92sland of ye Sacred Stone -ities%9 4bbo.Sathla( ye source and ye end lay confined forever at ye subterranean #lace referred to only as 9gray.litten Y'>aa( beneath ancient /y#erborea% $hese are not em#ty #laces ho ever% Servents and minions still lurk in ye dark corners of titanic streets% 2n addition to ye dangers of such +ourney( ye $raveller shall be #re#ared to face ye Ones ho still orshi# $hem in ye Dark% !ith much isdom and mastery of the *rt of *rcanes( ye $raveler may find there artifacts and allies to start an even more dangerous +ourney 8 the very #ath of ye Outer Places( here ye Old Ones came from and here some are still dreaming%%%