A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 31st

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Silver bullets. Puns.

Fetched wands. Sacred earth. All that

and nursery rhymes too.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 30th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Tying up loose ends.

Snuff lays out the story. Does

some howling, also.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 29th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

  Bat Gossips. Vicar 

 attacks. Holmes to the rescue. 

Monumental day.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 28th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Some exposition

at the end. In case you don't

understand the plot.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 27th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

The Good Doctor is

gone. Bubo's charade is done.

Pattern makes sense now.

.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 26th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Detective disguised

as a wolf, but he can't bluff

our boy Snuff. Good dog!

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 25th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Silver nails in

the soul of the squirrel. Kindness

from the cat and dog.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 24th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

When Things Attack! They

got loose. Unsurprisingly. 

Manumission spell.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 23rd

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

 Black tornado.  Dzzp!    

“I’ve come for my dog." Starlight.

Jack knows how to cut.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 22nd

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

This fucking chapter.

Ugh. The Dream-Quest of Unknown

pain in my Kad-ass.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 21st

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Drunk Russians often

become philosophers. Holmes

cuts loose at the camp.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 20th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Nightwind talks and the

Body Parts Man makes friends with

Gray. Pret-ty kit-ty.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 19th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Headscarves. Crisp morning.

Graymalk informs Snuff that the

Vicar done the deed.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 18th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Black Mass at the church

of Nyarlathotep. Help

from a friendly wolf.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 17th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

New Moon. The ghouls all

came from their humble abodes.

Twas a Graveyard Smash.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 16th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Questioning players.

Investigating the crime.

Moon dies tomorrow.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 15th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Continuing gray and

drizzling. Help from Larry. 

Disguised detective.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 14th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

A dead man in the 

field. Better start dragging

his body, old boy.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 13th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

The Vicar attacks!

Jack offers a peach to the 

Living Blasphemy.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 12th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Lazy Day. Snuff does

his duties. Jack smokes his pipe

and drinks his sherry.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 11th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

The keen eyes of the

Great Detective miss nothing.

Holmes makes friends with Snuff.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 10th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Another attempted

jailbreak. These Things are just a

huge pain in the ass.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 9th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

The Great Detective

and Jack converse in the fog.

That’s England for you.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 8th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Meet Larry Talbot.

His own best friend. Thing escapes.

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 7th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

A cat, a rat, and

faithful hound Snuff. Nothing much

else astir. Peaceful.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 6th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

The mirror crack’d from 

side to side.  Jailbreak! Snuff saves

the day. Good Boy, Snuff! 

With apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 5th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

The Good Doctor's house 

is not far, as the owl flies.

Good work, wise Nightwind.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 4th

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

Cheeter is a squirrel.
Squirrel is one syllable? Huh.
Squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel. Yup.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 3rd

Summarizing each day of A Night in the Lonesome October, in verse!

A cat, a bat, and

faithful hound Snuff. Nothing much

else astir. Peaceful.

This is a riff on a passage from The Hand of Oberon. 

 "Good evening. Lord Corwin," said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.
    "Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?"
    "A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful." 


It seems to want to be a haiku, but it doesn't quite get there. I've fixed that part.

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 2nd

Odd couple. A cat

and dog working together.

Mass hysteria!

A Verse in the Lonesome October: October 1st

Combining two of my favorite gimmicks, I will be summarizing a chapter a day of A Night in the Lonesome October...in poetry!

Tireless Watcher.

Ever Vigilant. Jack’s dog

Snuff is a good boy.