That sordid and best forgotten tome of nameless rites, hideous gods and secret, ancient blasphemies out of an unspeakably ancient past. He had it alright and I hardly could believe even though I saw it myself.
Leather-bound, it held with in its unholy pages secrets it's not good for humans to know. Even without opening the accursed volume, one could tell this was no ordinary old book.
Fraught with apprehension I watched as my friend opened the accursed thing. What I saw I wish I could unsee. Just the perversely well drawn illustrations hint of things, beings and barbarous rites of an ancient and sinister quality. The text written in some form of Latin and words from languages so ancient few would comprehend them today. Names of ancient deities best not uttered by those who want to keep their very sanity and lives safe.
In the place I stayed at the time we tried to decipher passages from the book, by a desk under lamplight that seemed insufficient. I know it sounds silly to a man of rationality, but it felt like peering into an vault of horrid and perverse things hailing from an unspeakably ancient past. A time when different stars aligned above the earth, and older now forgotten gods held sway over the poor human slaves that walked the young earth.
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Senast redigerad av Snobird 2019-05-09 kl. 14:21.