Call of Cthulhu: The Book of Eibon
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Histories of the Elder Magi, Episodes of Eibon of Mhu Thulan, Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom, Psalms of the Silent, and the Eibonic Rituals

"Out of the sea-horizoned north, where ships from Gerngoth were wont to play among the arctic islands, a galley came drifting with idle oars and aimlessly veering helm. The tide beached it among the boats of the fishermen, which fared no longer to sea but were drawn up on the sands below . . . Thronging about the galley in awe and wonder, the fishers beheld its oarsman still at the oars and its captain at the helm. But the faces and hands of all were stark as bone, and were white as the flesh of leprosy; and the pupils of their open eyes and faded strangely, being indistinguishable now from the whites; and a blankness of horror was within them, like the ice in deep pools that are fast frozen to the bottom."
- Clark Ashton Smith, "The Coming of the White Worm"

The Book of Eibon, the creation of Clark Ashton Smith, ranks behind Lovecraft's Necronomicon as a shunned repository of mystical horrors surviving blasphemously from elder eons. Not content with his own and Lovecraft's citations of the Book, Smith actually wrote two chapters of it, his famous stories "The Door to Saturn" and "The Coming of the White Worm." Lin Carter knew a good thing when he saw it and decided it would be fun to write the remaining Eibonic chapters. So he took in hand to write a number of them, intending to finish the book one day. This he did not live to do, but others took up the fallen banner, supplying more of the droll yet frightening episodes, as well as various liturgical and magical arcana the Book of Eibon was said to contain. The result is truly impressive, much more so than any previous attempt to compose such a Mythos grimoire, a work of horror, humor, and genuine poetic power. Many will be seriously tempted to use this volume as a working occult resource.
- Robert M. Price

Written by Clark Ashtom Smith, Lin Carter, and Divers Hands.

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408 pages
Stock #CHA6026 * ISBN 1568821298 * $18.00

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