Story by DJ Tyrer in which poet Dunton Kirby Picklass wins a poetry competition with verses copied from the Necronomicon. Besides the plagiarism, if the poem is finished something nasty will come... Published in Monomyth 20 and Garbaj 52.
Trivia[]
- The narrator has adopted a pseudonym derived from HP Lovecraft and given the foolish poet a name derived from one of Lovecraft's characters.
- The story reveals the true fate of Elvis.
- Ken Longman and Tim Smith get a brief cameo at the end.
- We learn that the Scientologists secretly revere Laxt.