Whether awake or dreaming, he knew the deadly peril in which he stood. A frenzy beyond the frenzy of nightmares mounted within him, and his reason seemed to drown in some abyss of primordial fears. Without knowing whence they came, from what volume of dubious lore he had remembered them, he began to declaim the words of a cabalistic exorcism.
“I adjure ye by the living God, El, Ehome, Etrha, Ejel aser, Ejech Adonay Iah Tetragrammaton Saday Agios other Agla ischiros athanatos—”
The long and orotund formula came to an end. It seemed that the specters had drawn back a little, facing La Porte in a sort of semi-circle. But, without turning, he knew that other visitants had gathered behind him. They guarded the door; they hemmed him in; they barred him from all hope of egress. Truly, he was no sorcerer to dismiss them, entrenched with intricate circles and pentagrams, and armed with the magnetized rod and the cross-hilted knife.
The pulsing horror deepened; the menace quickened like tightening coils.... And yet, among all these formidable shapes, there was nothing that he had not conceived and depicted in his half-abortive tales. They were, he tried to tell himself, mere images and ideas that he had never wholly discharged from his mind. Perhaps there was another mode of exorcism, surer and more potent than the one that magicians had employed.
Trying to disregard his visitors, he stooped over the Remington and his fingers began to seek the familiar keys…. [The typescript of “Nemesis of the Unfinished” ends here. The last page appears to be missing.]
APPENDIX SEVEN:
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
A Note on the Texts
The Dark Age
The Death of Malygris
The Tomb-Spawn
The Witchcraft of Ulua
The Coming of the White Worm
The Seven Geases
The Chain of Aforgomon
The Primal City
Xeethra
The Last Hieroglyph
Necromancy in Naat
The Treader of the Dust
The Black Abbot of Puthuum
The Death of Ilalotha
Mother of Toads
The Garden of Adompha
The Great God Awto
Strange Shadows
The Enchantress of Sylaire
Double Cosmos
Nemesis of the Unfinished
The Master of the Crabs
Morthylla
Schizoid Creator
Monsters in the Night
Phoenix
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles
Symposium of the Gorgon
The Dart of Rasasfa
Appendix One: Story Notes
Appendix Two: Variant Temptation Scenes from “The Witchcraft of Ulua”
Appendix Three: “The Traveler”
Appendix Four: Material Removed from “The Black Abbot of Puthuum”
Appendix Five: Alternate Ending to “I Am Your Shadow”
Appendix Six: Alternate Ending to “Nemesis of the Unfinished”
Appendix Seven: Bibliography
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
A Note on the Texts
The Dark Age
The Death of Malygris
The Tomb-Spawn
The Witchcraft of Ulua
The Coming of the White Worm
The Seven Geases
The Chain of Aforgomon
The Primal City
Xeethra
The Last Hieroglyph
Necromancy in Naat
The Treader of the Dust
The Black Abbot of Puthuum
The Death of Ilalotha
Mother of Toads
The Garden of Adompha
The Great God Awto
Strange Shadows
The Enchantress of Sylaire
Double Cosmos
Nemesis of the Unfinished
The Master of the Crabs
Morthylla
Schizoid Creator
Monsters in the Night
Phoenix
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles
Symposium of the Gorgon
The Dart of Rasasfa
Appendix One: Story Notes
Appendix Two: Variant Temptation Scenes from “The Witchcraft of Ulua”
Appendix Three: “The Traveler”
Appendix Four: Material Removed from “The Black Abbot of Puthuum”
Appendix Five: Alternate Ending to “I Am Your Shadow”
Appendix Six: Alternate Ending to “Nemesis of the Unfinished”
Appendix Seven: Bibliography