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Krakow Pages
Posted June 24, 2014
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The hidden manuscript is a copy of “The Black Stone” by Robert E. Howard. Scans of the 14 pages can be found in this album: Krakow Manuscript
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Mostly complete transcription of the textual annotations:
Page 1
foul things shapes from hell foul things lurk in dark corners foul things lurk in dark forgotten corners foul shapes foul shapes lurk in dark corner[s] dark forgotten corners shapes pent in hell in the darkest corners
shapes foul shapes foul shapes from dark corners
the gates will open bringing hell from (???) and foul shapes dr[ea]dful things which memory [i]n the dark forgotten (???) foul forgotten corners where the foul forgotten dark things lurk foul dark shapes
Page 2
nameless / the ravings of
secret societies... magnus
taloned fingers… dragon claws?
[k]eys keys open doors the gates to the dark place? objects of dark worship
(left margin) why do they die? dark matters
(right margin) a madman / metaphor? a nightmare?
Page 3
dream myths archetypes
written in verse
a voice from somewhere else?
(left margin) dark antiquity ancient horrors
(right margin) monstrous nightmares / unravelling another voice
Page 4
what was on the parchment?
or were they not there at all?
a manifestation of fear
the power of decay
all great poets are strange in their speech and actions
(left margin) did the bodies disappear
(right margin) no bones recovered… / a dragon burned down the castle walls and ended it all
Page 5
demon haunted always imagined
visions from without
attraction to the same place built the house there
have been passed into our
memory from another time?
(left margin) ances[tr]al knowledge
(right margin) foul dreams… nightmares / how much of these stories
Page 6
a kind of people that preceded the humans
hieroglyphics?
(left margin) octagon… a shape that could signify a doorway… a passageway
(right margin) an ancient force and an ancient fear
Page 7
babel? / of course they were not random the primal language
[t]his was the true language of the ancients
hopes that open the the door to dreams and nightmares
(left margin) dreams spoken in shapes
(right margin) a language of hopes and fears
Page 8
building cities on a[nc]ient sites what was there before?
choice of words... whispering darkness... the whispers we sense in the dark of night in nightmares
(left margin) did they build whole cities just to send a message?
(right margin) did the shado[w]s cast a message?
Page 9
sensations… where are they coming from?
awakening the doorway
what comes through it?
[a]rchaic ritual contains truth truth buried as myth
(left margin) some kind of ritual
(right margin) seeds of madness sown in the poet’s brain… in his mind
Page 10
across space and time outside of our universe? or perhaps our dimension
the music of demons awakening an infernal beast
[o]f her movement op[en] the doorway and allow the e(?)f(?)r to come through?
(left margin) again the shape… did the patterns
(right margin) awakening fear the fear that was given to us
Page 11
the priest became the thing they feared
transition black to white dark to light fear to awakening the vision brings both
(left margin) he turned into a dragon
(right margin) primordial creatures haunters of men
Page 12
are nightmares clearer than dreams?
the secret contains the truth of the nightmare
(left margin) the case contains the secret
Page 13
the language begins to change the reader… it is not the words… it is the tongue in in which they are written
a foreign language… what if the language was of older origins… beyond the threshold of this realm
(left margin) he must bury the secret
(right margin) whoever discovers the secret must bury it once more
Page 14
old when arabia was young.... do they precede the dawn of mankind?
keys
keys to door[s] that open nightmares and dreams fears and hopes this is our guide we build palaces we create dragons
(left margin) keys to doors