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"Mysteries of the Worm" is the title of a fictional book created by [[Robert Bloch]] and often featured in stories based on the Cthulhu Mythos inspired by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s works.
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The Unaussprechlichen Kulten (allso know as the Mysteries of the Worm) is the title of a fictional book created by [[Robert Bloch]]. [[H.P. Lovecraft]] prodivded the latin name of the title.
  
Bloch created the tome in his "The Secret in the Tomb". Lovecraft, who was corresponding with Bloch, enjoyed the story and provided him with the original Latin title: ''De Vermis Mysteriis''. Bloch used both titles in "The Shambler from the Stars", and the work has appeared under either title in stories since.
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==Description==
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De Vermis Mysteriis is the work of one [[Ludvig Prinn]]; a Flemish alchemist and supposed sorcerer. Prinn had spent a great deal of time traveling in the east (particularly in Syria and Eygpt) and claimed to have obtained a great age through the use of his sorcery. Eventualy Prinn was captured by the Inquisition and sentanced to death. While awaiting execution in his cell he wrote the volume he called De Vermiss Mysteriis. How Prinn managed to have the blasphemous manuscript smuggled past his captors is unknown though the nobleman and sorcerer [[Baron Hauptman]] is supposed to have had a hand in it. The book was published in Brussels during the next year, by Eucharius Cervicornnus.
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==Contents==
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==Eucharius Cervicornnus==
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==German Translation==
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=="Kelly" Edition==
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==Leggett's Translation ==
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==Role Playing Game Stats==.
  
The author is Ludvig Prinn, a sorcerer of the 16th Century who travelled to Syria and learned magic from the "wonder-workers" there.
 
 
 
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Revision as of 18:42, 22 October 2008

The Unaussprechlichen Kulten (allso know as the Mysteries of the Worm) is the title of a fictional book created by Robert Bloch. H.P. Lovecraft prodivded the latin name of the title.

Description

De Vermis Mysteriis is the work of one Ludvig Prinn; a Flemish alchemist and supposed sorcerer. Prinn had spent a great deal of time traveling in the east (particularly in Syria and Eygpt) and claimed to have obtained a great age through the use of his sorcery. Eventualy Prinn was captured by the Inquisition and sentanced to death. While awaiting execution in his cell he wrote the volume he called De Vermiss Mysteriis. How Prinn managed to have the blasphemous manuscript smuggled past his captors is unknown though the nobleman and sorcerer Baron Hauptman is supposed to have had a hand in it. The book was published in Brussels during the next year, by Eucharius Cervicornnus.

Contents

Eucharius Cervicornnus

German Translation

"Kelly" Edition

Leggett's Translation

==Role Playing Game Stats==.