Where there had been darkness...: October 2018

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.

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Tying up loose ends.

Snuff lays out the story. Does

some howling, also.

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Bat Gossips. Vicar

attacks. Holmes to the rescue.

Monumental day.

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Some exposition

at the end. In case you don't

understand the plot.

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.

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Detective disguised

as a wolf, but he can't bluff

our boy Snuff. Good dog!

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.

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When Things Attack! They

got loose. Unsurprisingly.

Manumission spell.

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Black tornado. Dzzp!

“I’ve come for my dog." Starlight.

Jack knows how to cut.

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This fucking chapter.

Ugh. The Dream-Quest of Unknown

pain in my Kad-ass.

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Drunk Russians often

become philosophers. Holmes

cuts loose at the camp.

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Nightwind talks and the

Body Parts Man makes friends with

Gray. Pret-ty kit-ty.

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Headscarves. Crisp morning.

Graymalk informs Snuff that the

Vicar done the deed.

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Black Mass at the church

of Nyarlathotep. Help

from a friendly wolf.

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New Moon. The ghouls all

came from their humble abodes.

Twas a Graveyard Smash.

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Questioning players.

Investigating the crime.

Moon dies tomorrow.

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Continuing gray and

drizzling. Help from Larry.

Disguised detective.

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A dead man in the

field. Better start dragging

his body, old boy.

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The Vicar attacks!

Jack offers a peach to the

Living Blasphemy.

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Lazy Day. Snuff does

his duties. Jack smokes his pipe

and drinks his sherry.

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The keen eyes of the

Great Detective miss nothing.

Holmes makes friends with Snuff.

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Another attempted

jailbreak. These Things are just a

huge pain in the ass.

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The Great Detective

and Jack converse in the fog.

That’s England for you.

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Meet Larry Talbot.

His own best friend. Thing escapes.

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!

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A cat, a rat, and

faithful hound Snuff. Nothing much

else astir. Peaceful.

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The mirror crack’d from

side to side. Jailbreak! Snuff saves

the day. Good Boy, Snuff!

With apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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The Good Doctor's house

is not far, as the owl flies.

Good work, wise Nightwind.

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

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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.

Odd couple. A cat

and dog working together.

Mass hysteria!

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.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Monday, October 29, 2018

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