"the sorcerer himself was not beheld by the city’s people, though some believed that he walked forth at will, clad with invisibility."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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Highlighted blocks of text from The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith Green block: "And they said that the foundations of the house were laid on the adamantine cope of hell; and in its floors were pits at whose bottom burned the nether fires, or stars could be seen as they passed under in lowermost night." Blue block: "And the followers of Namirrha were the dead of strange kingdoms, the demons of sky and earth and the abyss, and mad, impious, hybrid things that the sorcerer himself had created from forbidden unions."
A #Rothno on my kindle app
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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"they fled with ungainly swiftness"
Clark Ashton Smith accurately describing me running for the bus, apart from the swift bit.
The Dark Eidolon
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"he was told that a strange prodigy had occurred during the night; but, being still bemused with wine and slumber, he comprehended little enough of its nature"
Reading The Dark Eidolon because I didn't finish it last #ShortStorySunday & frankly I have little energy to get up
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My latest #ShortStorySaturday : vrcraftauthor.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/s...
For #ShortStorySaturday I read Robert E. Howard’s “The Black Stone.” It was creepy as hell, and it features one of Howard’s contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos: the cursed book “Nameless Cults” by Friedrich von Junzt. Good stuff. #books
Photo of a cotton field ready for harvest, somewhere in North Carolina USA
Once upon a time there were two boll weevils…
One studied hard, graduated from a top university and became a wealthy entrepreneur
The other was lazy, stayed behind in the cotton field and never amounted to much
He became known as the lesser of two weevils
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