Friday 21 December 2012

Carol of the Old Ones

Well, today is/was supposed to be the end of the world, according to the Mayas. SO I need to blog this quickly, before the world comes to an end. How will you spend your last few hours? (Or minutes?). I will spend them listening to a very fitting Christmas carol, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mytho. Lovecraft wrote at least one storu set at Christmas, The Festival. It uses the Pagan roots of Christmas and its dark side. Inspired fans used Carols of the bells as a basis to write their own Lovecraftian carol. It mimicks the original so well, it is difficult to hear the difference at first. But here it is:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Lol. Brilliant!Thank goodness for the subtitles!