The Voice before the Void: Arcana, Story, Poetry

Walpurgisnacht:All these creepy things in the country.-The Voice before the Void

To compare with: “What Was It? A Mystery” by Fitz James O’Brien

“The Damned Thing”

Ambrose Bierce

Works mentioned:

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose BierceThe Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce“An Inhabitant of Carcosa” by Ambrose BierceThe King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers“A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose BierceThe Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose BierceThe Weird Tale by S.T. JoshiGringo viejo (The Old Gringo) by Carlos Fuentes

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The Voice before the Void

Walpurgisnacht: A great classic weird story. -The Voice before the Void

Works, authors, and artists mentioned by O’Brien in the story:

The Night-Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine CroweWieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden BrownZanoni by Edward Bulwer-LyttonHistory of Monsters by Goudon – this may be a fictional book invented by O’BrienE.T.A. HoffmannGustave DoréJacques CallotTony JohannotVoyage où il vous plaira by Alfred de Musset and Pierre-Jules Hetzel

“What Was It? A Mystery”

Fitz James O’Brien

By artist and author Russell Smeaton, the winning story in the 4th Lovecraftian Micro Fiction Contest at the 2017 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon in Portland, Oregon.

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“Snot”

Russell Smeaton

Text © copyright 2017 by Russell Smeaton. Phonorecord ℗ copyright 2019 by Russell Smeaton and The Voice before the Void. All rights reserved.

A demand made of a personified emotion.

-The Voice before the Void

“Lines: After the Manner of the Olden Time”

George Pope Morris