The Horror In Clay

MES: The most merciful thing in the world is man's

inability to correlate all of his mind's contents. But

the sciences one day, some say it is already upon us,

will eventually open up such terrifying vistas of

reality that we will either go mad from the revelation

or flee into blissful sleep, peace and safety of

another new dark age.

I'm Mark Edward Smith, these words are HP Lovecraft's.

We give you the horror in clay.

<techno bit> <footsteps>

Voice 1: Yes just working on this head at the moment.

Need to put some scales on the body as well.tend to

flow a bit more with the body get a few more curves in

<voice fades down as second fades up>

Voice 2 see voice 7 later:: the garden girdled babylon

that lies next to and above it'ssss Cornwall.

Voice 2 & MES: It's slight accent into (CC

Sheffield Cornwall).

MES: The professor knows the youth is completely

ignorant of pagan, (cryptioch) or biblical law. He

ponders and reflects over the sculpture. Professor

phones sculptor who says:

Voice 3: As I said, it was a dream of dark dripping

stone, of a fractured voice whose vowels were

impenetrable <music fades up, powderkeg key

riff?> I was not stoned professor, honestly, my

grant has run out. But the only two vowels or sounds

frequently repeated that I could make out were

<cchhhh-shhhllmm>

Voice 4, in music initially very hard to hear: ???? he

brings out the key given to him by his uncle's

executor. Contents are a clay bas relief with bits of

(fevered jotting and) strewn around inside the

packing. The bas relief is - rectangle, six inches by

five inches, one inch thick (With hieroglyphics)

neither ancient nor modern, sort of

Cornwall-slash-modern art. On top is a creature as if

just made - description - a cross between octopus,

human, dragon, ------, tentacled head, scaly body,

(half are wings) ?????? behind this is a small two by

four vista, ionic columns, attached is a large sheet

of paper with large felt pen writing saying Cthulhu,

Kith-UH-loo, cthulhu cult. ---- --- the two columns

one dream and dream work of HA Wilcox no relation of

Toyah. Seven Hubert a - ur -urry Street Penzance

<cut>

MES: The professor phones the sculptor who says

Voice 5: As I said, it was a dream of dark dripping

stone, of a fractured voice whose vowels were

impenetrable

Voice 6, newspaper headline?: Mental illness group

folly, see inside.

MES: (Better get) Penzance Bay gazette heading dated

1969. Comfortable leafy suburb, green, lilac German

type houses, a lot of dark green, ominous, pale thin

youth (pretentious), walks up to hesitatingly to the

front of a house with a package. He looks like a cross

between so and so and the singer out of Orb. He is

nervous and affected. A balding (Mike Hill) type opens

the door he is the professor, Martin's great uncle

<note a bloody plane passes over at this point in

the tape making it very difficult to decipher!!! MES

records on the move> (His uncle recognises him as

the son of respected family noted and he'd been in

sculpture college) Youth hands prof package. It is

clay bas relief, but not before saying

Voice 7: I made this last night in a dream of cities

new and old, dreams older than the Gaelic sea or the

old Atlantic or the garden girdled babylon that lies

next to and above it'ssss Cornwall.

Voice 7 & MES: It's slight accent into CC

Sheffield Cornwall

MES: The professor knows the youth is completely

ignorant of pagan, (cryptioch) or biblical law. He

ponders and reflects over the sculpture. Professor

phones sculptor who says:

Voice 8: As I said, it was a dream of dark dripping

stone, of a fractured voice whose vowels were

impenetrable <music fades up, with chittering

bird/insect noise this time> I was not stoned

professor, honestly, my grant has run out. But the

only two vowels or sounds frequently repeated that I

could make out were Cthulhu<guitar riff, old

gang>

Voice 9, singing muffled at start: Penzance Bay

gazette heading dated

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