De Vermis Mysteriis

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

The De Vermis Mysteriis is slightly over seven hundred pages long and split into sixteen chapters. These chapters deal with subjects such as Irim City of the Pillars, The Priesthood of Nephren Ka and the avatars of Nyarlathotep worshipped in the east. Part of the last chapter deals with a bizarre time drug that alters one's perception of time The same section allso contains the instructions for creating the Pnakotic Pentangle.

Another of the later chapters entitiled the Saracenic Rituals, focuses on the summoning and controlling other worldly beings. The layout of this chapter is a good example of Prinn's some what sadistic sense of humour since some of the spells required to control these summoned beings are written in totally different sections of the book.

Other supposed spells in the De Vermis Mysteriis include a ritual for summoning a child of Shub-Niggurath, a formula for calling up the spirit from the remains of its corpse, and instructions on how to craft a certain symbol Prinn claims to be a powerful aid in banishing entities.

Leggett's Translation

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