The Queen in Red (tome)

Title: The Red Queen, a mythos tome, originally appears in Malleus Monstrorum.

Description

An epic poem detailing the Queen in Red, describing the marvels of her court in a surreal, astrological allegory with many passages describing in a poetic and round-about fashion an elaborate, dream-like journey through several metaphorical worlds or dimensions to solve nonsensical riddles in what modern commentary would likely interpret as a flying saucer, ending with a tantalizingly utopian prophecy of the Queen in Red's eventual ascension to the "Throne of the World".

Latin Version

• author: Anonymous
• language: Medieval Italian
• number of known copies (if rare): (few copies were created, and no copies are known to have survived)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (some copies might have survived in the Dreamlands)
• spells:  ?
• sanity loss: minor
• mythos lore: minor
• Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa
• study: 1 week to study and comprehend

This is the original anonymously-written medieval Italian version, of which there are no known copies to have survived an inquisition in Medieval Florence, Italy. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like.

English Version

• author: Anonymous
• language: Elizabethan English translation
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, apparently uncommon)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (copies turn up from time to time in the United States and elsewhere)
• spells:  ?
• sanity Loss: minor
• mythos lore: minor
• Dreamlands lore: minor, focusing on what seems to be Carcosa
• study: 1 week to study and comprehend

The slim book is the English translation of its original anonymously-written medieval Italian, of which there are no known surviving copies. The text is hauntingly beautiful and dream-like.

Appearances

• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum

Associated Mythos Elements

• setting: Dreamlands
• setting: Hastur Cycle
• location: Carcosa
• deity: Queen in Red
• deity: King in Yellow
• tome: compare/contrast with The King in Yellow (tome)