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Title:  ''Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus'' (AKA ''Confessions of Clithanus'') first appeared in [[August Derleth]]'s "[[Something from Out There (fiction)]]".

==Description==
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There are in the Confessions disquieting hints of sea passages, unmentionable chambers and horrors beneath the sea off the coast from Hydestall, and an opening on the coast somewhere along here.... Clithanus writes of furtive treks down into the passages, and of faint horribly suggestive sounds from far below the surface of the sea....
<br>— [[August Derleth]]'s "[[Something from Out There (fiction)]]"
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===Latin Version===
* author: "Mad Monk" Clithanus, Rome late 4th/early 5th century
* Language: Latin
* Number of known copies (if rare): (unknown)
* Last known location of surviving copies (unknown): Field Museum of Chicago, the British Museum, and the Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan.

Physical Description: illuminated leather-bound tome

General Content: A distilled subset of content from the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' focused on warding and protection against the Mythos forces, combined with Clithanus' own practical application of the information, including information on subterranean catacombs beneath [[Hydestall Cathedral]], England, and the [[Star-Spawn of Cthulhu|oceanic horrors]] which lurk beneath the waves thereabouts. It also tells of an encounter which Clithanus and Saint Augustine of Hippo had with the titular "Something" from Derleth's [[Something from Out There (fiction)|short story]], during which the entity was defeated and sealed away.

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==Appearances==
* fiction:  [[August Derleth]]'s "[[Something from Out There (fiction)]]"
* fiction:  [[James Ambuehl]], "The Advent of Uvhash"


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