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“They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the words have been spoken and the rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with their voices and the earth mutters with their consciousness.”
The Necronomicon, The Dulwich Horror, H.P. Lovecraft
The Nyarlathotep Coven was a collective of magicians from a variety of backgrounds who came to work together to explore Lovecraftian magic.
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This account of ritual experimentation from the archives of the Nyarlathotep Coven was originally intended for inclusion in a sequel to my short book, The Pseudonomicon, but by the late 90s I’d more-or-less abandoned lovecraftian experiments in magic, so it never came to pass.
The ancient Greeks created special places – often underground – where visitors could commune with the spirits of the dead. These places were called psychomanteums. The following is a description of the Nyarlathotep Coven’s experiments in recreating a psychomanteum for the purpose of two-way traffic with Lovecraftian liminal spaces and their denizens.
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