Christmas Poems

[Bulbatron]

Well we've not long to go now, until the festive month (still not begun my Christmas shopping).

So I was wondering whether we would be getting the Christmas poems again.  I lost them when I deleted the old set of episodes when the podcast and website moved.

So, any chance to re-obtain the poems would be good!

[Bassik]

The HPL Historical got two cool albums with distorted christmass songs, including a hillarious one sung by Andrew Leman. Just so you know... that voice is also good at singing.

[Kaelestes]

I second this motion of reposting the Christmas poems. They were all wonderful, and wonderfully read, but I also lost the lot of them in the move. There was one in particular I liked so much that I put it on all of my cards last year.

[Carlo_Nino]

Christmas
By H. P. Lovecraft

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!

[Carlo_Nino]

Christmas Greetings to Felis
(Frank Belknap Long’s cat)
By H. P. Lovecraft

Haughty Sphinx, whose amber eyes
Hold the secrets of the skies,
As thou ripplest in thy grace,
Round the chairs and chimney-place,
Scorn on thy patrician face:
Hiss not harsh, nor use thy claws
On the hand that gives applause—
Good-will only doth abide
In these lines at Christmastide!

[Carlo_Nino]

Christmas Greetings to Rheinhart Kleiner
By H. P. Lovecraft

St. John, whose art sublimely shines
In liquid odes and melting lines,
Let Theobald his regard express
In verse of lesser loveliness.
As now in regal state appear
The festive hours of Yuletide cheer,
My strongest wish is that you may
Feel ev’ry blessing of the day!

[Carlo_Nino]

A Lovecraft Christmas
by Paul M. Lemieux, copyright 1989.
To the tune of ``'Twas the Night Before Christmas''

Twas the night before Yuletide and all through the hole
Not a creature was stirring, not even a Dhole
Aldebaren hung at the right place at nine
In the hopes that Great Cthulhu would come out this time

The Fungi from Yuggoth, all snug in their caves
Were plotting to turn all the people to slaves
The Deep Ones in Rlyeh, the Ghouls in their graves
Were dancing and singing and acting depraved

When what do my wondering eyes should appear
But a mouldering sleigh and eight corpselike reindeer
With a horrible driver so leprous and reeking
I knew right away that my fear was unspeaking

The reindeer were gross, as they flew up from hell
And It hoarsely whispered and chanted a spell
Ia Shub Niggurath! Cthulhu ftagn!
Nyarlathotep! I summon you on!

As decomposed flesh before the charnel stench rise
And meet with the open air polluting the skies
Up to the housetop the horror it rose
And the gangrenous odors assailed my nose

And then in a slopping noise heard on the roof
The lumbering clomping of octopoid hoofs
As I drew in my head and was turning around
The horror lurched into my room with a bound

Its eyes how they pulsate
So bulbous and gory
This blasphemous creature
So noxious and hoary

I was frozen by fear, my feet woudn't run
I threw up my cookies, this wasn't much fun
It whispered my name and said ``You come with I''
I tried to refuse and it said ``Then you die.''

It came at my throat with its grim claws extended
But a miracle saved its victim intended
I had three Elder Signs in a slot in the floor
It screamed with a fiendish sound and went out the door

It sprang to its sleigh, and its team gave a surge
And away they all flew to the sound of a dirge
I heard it exclaim as it flew out of sight
``You're lucky this time, for the stars weren't right.''

[Kaelestes]

I'm gettin' the holiday fever! Hope it's not catching . . .

Carol of the Old Ones

[Dionysius8421]

Actually, I'm at my dad's workplace right now and playing both HPLHS Solstice albums. People haven't noticed yet. I even heard someone humming along to "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen."

I've been laughing the whole time.

[Chris Lackey]

I wasn't going to repost them... but... maybe... now that you mention it...

[Bulbatron]

Pleeeeeeeeeeease!?

[Genus Unknown]

Pleeeeeeeeeeease!?

Seconded, with sugar on top.

[Genus Unknown]

YES! The Prophet's horrific paeans to the ancient frost-sabbath return!

Thanks, Lackey! Praises and abundance!

[Bulbatron]

I see the first one is up!

Thank You kindly, Squire!  Downloading now!

[catamount]

Awesome, thanks for putting them back up!