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Egypt’s greatest treasure is her dead—and now her dead are coming for you!

Is not hope but a torture in such a world as this—a device of the Elder Gods, to extract as much pain as possible from us earthly creatures, that they might feed upon that pain—?

The wizards of Acheron and Stygia and even older civilization cycles knew them by other names. To the nations of primal Attluma they were Kossuth and Assatur. It is said that every thousand years Sakkuth attempts to destroy civilization, and that he succeeds unless powerful magic is used to stop him. It was he who plunged the world into the All-Night after the Atlantean and Hyborian cataclysms.

But what is it that stirs in that dim fane?
What sifts the dust and breathes the stagnant air
And groans at night within that frightful lair—
There on that demon-hill obscene, insane?
— Fantina, “Shub-Niggurath”
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The Thing, the Arabs claimed, was not of Earth
Nor yet of any world that man could know;
More ancient than Allah, its monstrous birth
Had taken place beyond the Time-stream’s flow.
“In aeons past some black fate brought it here,”
They said, “and left it for all men to fear.