Azhmodai Magnets

"Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius. Et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius." -- Hermes Trismegistus, the Emerald Tablet

"...the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now."

"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

"They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design--living and horrible"

Night falls on Khazad-dum Delve deeply, greed malign Black pit of mithril mine Come Balrog, shadow-flame! Moria-Coming-Fire, Durin's Bane! And then it all burns down Durin's Bane!

Ythogtha, son of Cthulhu

In that secret cave in the bowels of Voormithadreth...abides from eldermost eons the god Tsathoggua. You shall know Tsathoggua by his great girth and his batlike furriness and the look of a sleepy black toad which he has eternally. He will rise not from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

“That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.” — H. P. Lovecraft

"So I place you under this geas, to betake yourself downward through the caverns till you reach, after long descent, that bottomless gulf over which the spider-god Atlach-Nacha weaves his eternal webs." - Clark Ashton Smith, "The Seven Geases"

"Yig was a great god. He was bad medicine. He did not forget things. In the autumn his children were hungry and wild, and Yig was hungry and wild too." -- H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, "The Curse of Yig"

"In that secret cave in the bowels of Voormithadreth...abides from eldermost eons the god Tsathoggua."

"It was the oddly conventionalised figure of a crouching winged hound, or sphinx with a semi-canine face.... The expression on its features was repellent in the extreme, savouring at once of death, bestiality, and malevolence."

"They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design--living and horrible--and as I saw them I knew also of what that humped, tiaraed priest in the black church basement had so fearsomely reminded me." - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow over Innsmouth"

In that secret cave in the bowels of Voormithadreth...abides from eldermost eons the god Tsathoggua. You shall know Tsathoggua by his great girth and his batlike furriness and the look of a sleepy black toad which he has eternally.

“Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate.” - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"

"My mind will bear forever the memory of the Pallid Mask."

"Stupendous and unheard-of splendours await me below, and I shall seek them soon... We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever." - H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow over Innsmouth

"And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet." — H. P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"

"They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design--living and horrible..." - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow over Innsmouth"

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"

"It was called...'The Esoteric Order of Dagon', and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the East a century before..." - H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow over Innsmouth

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

I like my coffee like my magic: black, with a bit of cream and sugar.

Education opens the door to a different world

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

"...the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now." - Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign

"Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods."

"Long shall be your suffering. Joyous be your pain." --Asteroth, Daemon Prince of Slaanesh

Ex Ignorantia Ad Sapientiam; Ex Luce Ad Tenebras (Out of ignorance into wisdom; Out of light into darkness)

"You saw the thing that walked on the wind? Then He will return for you, for none can see Him and escape."

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.

"There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range." - H. P. Lovecraft

There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall.