Unaussprechlichen Kulten

Unaussprechlichen Kulten
Also known as	Das Buch von den unaussprechlichen Kulten Nameless Cults Black Book
Created by	Friedrich von Junzt
Place of origin	Germany
Type	Data Storage and Transmission
Function	Tome
Real World Information
Creator	Robert E. Howard
First Appearance	CIRCLE: "The Black Stone"
Other Appearances	HPL: "The Dreams in the Witch-House" "The Horror in the Museum" "Out of the Aeons" "The Thing on the Doorstep" The Shadow Out of Time "The Haunter of the Dark" CIRCLE: "The Children of the Night" "The Thing on the Roof" AWD: "The Return of Hastur" "The Whippoorwills in the Hills" "The Seal of R'lyeh" EXP: "The Horror in the Gallery" Call of Cthulhu Eldritch Horror

“	"Vor dem Anfang der Historie, die erinnern Menschen sich, gibt es schwarze Äonen, denen ist es vielleicht besser nicht zu wissen." "Before the beginning of the history men remember, there are black eons of which it is perhaps better not to know."	„
	~ Robert M. Price with Robert E. Howard , Black Eons

Written by Friedrich von Junzt with the help of numerous "blood-curdling and partly-suspected sources" including the surviving members of the cult of Ghatanothoa the Unaussprechlichen Kulten (Nameless Cults) or the Black Book is an occult tome published in Düsseldorf in 1839.

The pages written in the last months of his life were found in pieces with his body after his death. When his friend Alexis Ladeau managed to reassemble the fragments and read what had been written, he burned them and cut his own throat with a razor.

The book was widely suppressed, and after von Junzt's death in 1840 many people burned their copies. Not counting the poorly executed Bridewall translation (London, 1845) or the heavily edited reprint by Golden Goblin Press (New York, 1909) there weren't likely to be more than a half dozen copies in existence by the 1930s. One known copy can be found in the Miskatonic University Collection.

Contents

Among other topics, the book includes:

• Occult objects from around the world such as a strange monolith in the mountains of Hungary. (CIRCLE: "The Black Stone")
• A description of the prehistoric province of K'naa on the continent of Mu and the story of the High Priest T'yog. (HPL: "Out of the Aeons")
• Recreations of hieroglyphs that appeared on the carved metal cylinder in the Cabot Museum (HPL: "Out of the Aeons") and in the visions of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee. (HPL: The Shadow Out of Time)
• Passage detailing a Pictish "king who rules the Dark Empire, which was a revival of an older, darker empire dating back into the Stone Age; and of the great, nameless cavern where stands the Dark Man—the image of Bran Mak Morn, carved in his likeness by a master hand while the great king yet lived, and to which each worshipper of Bran makes a pilgrimage once in his or her lifetime. Yes, that cult lives today in the descendants of Bran's people—a silent, unknown current it flows on in the great ocean of life, waiting for the stone image of the great Bran to breathe and move with sudden life, and come from the great cavern to rebuild their lost empire." (CIRCLE: "The Children of the Night")
• Ways to contact various species and even Great Old Ones, including Ghoul, Mi-go, Byakhee, Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, Deep One, Dagon, Ghatanothoa, Azathoth, Cyäegha, Nyarlathotep, Nyogtha, and Shub-Niggurath. (EXP: Call of Cthulhu)
• Spells: Barrier of Naach-Tith, and Resurrection. (EXP: Call of Cthulhu)