A Guide to the Twelfth Quire

We have once again reached the conclusion of a Quire, and so the full account of Abdel's encounters in the desert and his entry into the court of Akili has been revealed.

This Quire contains an image (the reconstruction of a body for Nyarlathotep) that I have been planning for about two years now. My oldest son and I were out for a walk discussing Lovecraft and in particular the question of who was in the chair in The Whisperer in Darkness, as I knew I wanted to include Nyarlathotep at the end of the ten years in the desert. He then proposed the idea of Nyarlathotep taking a piecemeal form, cobbled together from the severed limbs strewn throughout the book so far. I was a bit stunned, as the dismemberment hadn't been something I had planned, it just grew organically out of the story. So special thanks to my son Keller, and to his patience, as I told him on that walk that it would be a few years before I could include it.

Now I will ask for your forgiveness. In the most recent mailing a new character named Charu explains the history of Akili's entry into the Coven of N'yog. I had written "Many years before, the Wanderer Akili didst appeareth in the court." But in my final edit just moments before sending the pages to the printer I swapped the word 'before' with 'hence'. I don't know why I did that as it is an antonym, not a synonym. And so now you, the poor reader, must suffer through my foolishness.

 As a sidenote, the Coven of N'yog comes from a letter by HPL to Clark Ashton Smith in which he writes "Behold a meeting of two Cowled Heads, representing the Covens of N'yog & Leng-Tcho. We have feasted on the Nameless Objects & are about to invoke That which broods in the Abyss." These little plot seeds from Lovecraft are such a gift!

Thank you again for your patronage and kindness.

Christian