Caverns of Dream Errata: Merry Christmas to All

The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,
     The candles gaily glow;
The stars emit a kinder light
     Above the drifted snow.

Down from the sky a magic steals
     To glad the passing year,
And belfries sing with joyous peals,
     For Christmastide is here!

– H.P. Lovecraft, “Christmastide”

Sorry I’ve been so slow with the updates, but I did warn you back at the start. In any case, I still need to get cracking on “Dagon,” which I’ll hopefully be able to do during my holiday break. In the meantime, I figured I’d tide you over with one of Lovecraft’s holiday-themed poems, seen above. And while I may not technically consider myself Christian, I can’t help but get into an atheistic holiday spirit. Woo!

Besides, I love Christmas songs, and I only get one month a year to publicly indulge in them. I especially like Christmas carols concerning nameless horrors that Man Was Not Meant to Know™. Like, for instance, this one, courtesy of YouTube and the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s A Very Scary Solstice album:

In all seriousness, check out the HPLHS. They’re good people, and they do excellent work. They did a truly amazing silent film rendition of The Call of Cthulhu and are working on an early-1930s-style film version of The Whisperer in Darkness. Plus, they’ve done a number of period-style radio dramas based on Lovecraft’s stories, including At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow Out of Time, and, most recently, The Shadow Over Innsmouth. If you liked the above song, they’ve got the lyrics and a free downloadable MP3 available here.