Suggestions for unusual Mythos tomes. 

Scrawlings on the walls of the third floor tower at the Bletchley estate
Weeks needed: 14
Language: English, Theban alphabet
Author: Sir Horace Waldemar Bletchley
C.M. gain: +8
SAN Loss: 1D3/1D10
This nasty little example of instant sanity loss was written in blood on the walls of his tower room by young Horace Bletchley. They are grotesque scribblings in blood derived from grievous self-mutilation and written with a sharpened quill on once white walls, have obtuse, deranged, and often downright vague references to the Magnum Tenebrosum, Cynothoglys, Byatis, and, most disturbingly, Y'golonac in a rather disturbing form.
Spells: Call Y'golonac, Call Cynothoglys, Call Magnum Tenebrosum Contact Byatis.

Vastarien
Weeks: 8
Language: Unknown, apparently English
Author: Unknown
C.M.: +3
SAN: 1/1D4 for non-readers, 1D100 for the reader
From Ligotti's story of the same title, only one in a generation can read this book, while others see only blank pages. Those who are one of those chosen few experience dreams of a distant, shadowy, superreal world without bounds where they are totally alone. Eventually the reader will become obsessive and paranoid, going to great - sometimes murderous - lengths to protect their dreams.
Spells: Probably none, although the reader may be in a rather desolate or alien region of the Dreamlands while asleep.

An On-Line Tome for Cthulhu Now
A hypertext neo-gothic novel rumoured to be the work of a poet who recently committed suicide in a truly grotesque fashion: the novel's poisonously decadent words seem to subtly rearrange or change themselves on the screen every time the reader blinks - or are they just tired and imagining it? - and the website's hyperlinks gradually lead the reader into stranger, darker, and increasingly non-Euclidean corners of cyberspace... Perhaps towards the subterranean gulf of Y'golonac's endless night? Lost Carcosa? Somewhere or sometime haunted by the Hounds of Tindalos?

The Daily Wall
Every day on their way to work an investigator walks past a particular wall which seems to attract particularly frenzied and competetive graffiti artists: it's forever being bombed, tagged, painted and scrawled upon, to the point where it's an almost painfully complex overlay of multicoloured works whose jarring colours and fragmentary images are almost painful to the eyes. At night some of the paint shines with a pallid and nacreous glow, seeming to spell out impossible and alien words which, if spoken aloud, begin to haunt the investigator's dreams and eventually even their waking life...a spell? A curse? An invocation or litany to some ancient and unspeakable god?

Becoming the Tome
The investigators have stopped the dread cult’s evil scheme to summon “something” from beyond space and time. They gather the dread tome that was used in the ritual and are escaping in the rain, their prize clutched in their hands. The person clutching the book notices that his hands are black as the ink is running from the book. Upon opening the book, he sees that every page of bound flesh is blank.
The following morning after a fitful nights sleep, he awakens to find that the words and illustrations from the book are tattooed over every inch of his body with the exception of his head and hands.
Other members of the cult come looking for the investigator. They want their book back and want to skin him so they can re-bind the pages back into the book.

The last 2 seconds of static from the audo log of Oceanic Flight 906
Language: Morse Code
Author: Unknown
C.M.: +1
SAN: 1/1D4

Flight 906 crashed into a remote area of the South Pacific in 2002. No survivors or debris were ever recovered.

The last communication from Flight 906 gives no idication of any mechanical trouble. All systems appeared to be normal, and neither the pilot or the copilot indicated any problems. The only thing out of the ordinary that appears on the log is the voice of the co-pilot saying, "There's a strange green mist down there."

A split second later, there is a loud burst of static that lasts for 2 seconds. The log then goes completely silent.

If the static is slowed down hundreds of times it changes into a rhythmic tapping that is actually Morse Code. Once decoded, it becomes a record of the end of the world, of fire, lightning, earthquakes, and the rise of an island from the deep sea. It takes about 30 minutes to listen to the "static" recording once it is slowed down, and it takes approximately 6 hours to transcribe it from Morse Code.

Cynothoglys, Audio Version, Cassette
Author: Unknown
Language: English, trans. from Italian
Reader: Unknown
C.M.: +5
Solid version mentioned mentioned in passing in the short story "Vastarien". Only the title was given in the story. A disturbing set of suicidal cantos read by a male with a deep voice. Grainy.
Spells: If A and B sides are played successively, in full, Call Cynothoglys is cast*.
SAN Loss: 1D3/1D6 to hear it, 1D10/1D20 to actually witness the summoning.
*Dismiss Cynothoglys involves playing both sides backwards, but is time-consuming and therefore ineffectual.

The Hauer Manuscript
In German, by Professor Peter Conrad Hauer, 1924.
This work is an unfinished manuscript recounting the author's many years spent studying 16th and 17th century Icelandic runic grimoires or galdrboks. Most scholars consider the galdrbok material to be incomprehensible, but Professor Hauer claims to have achieved special insight into the intricate diagrams, complex numerology, and droning incantations necessary to practice this form of magic. Many of his notions are unorthodox, including his unusual analysis of certain characters from Scandinavian mythology and his claim that practitioners of the old magic can still be found in out of the way corners of Norway and Sweden.

The author vanished before he could complete the manuscript, and only this single loose-leaf copy exists to substantiate his research. All of the spells in this work function more or less as per thier rulesbook descriptions, but prior to thier activation, elaborite rituals that involve the careful carving of elaborite diagrams colored with the practitioner's own blood must be performed, together with skillful chanting.

Sanity loss: 1D3/1D6
Cthulhu Mythos: +5 percentiles
Study time: average 15 weeks to study and comprehend.
Spells: Dream Stave (Journey to the Other Side), Hel Rune (Cause Disease), Dragon Stave (Contact Cthulhu), The Stave of Loki* (Contact Nyarlathotep), Stave of the Winter Thurse (Call/Dismiss Ithaqua), Terror Stave (Bind Enemy)

*Notes on Stave of Loki spell: Loki is referred to as both the "Son of Thurses (literally, 'gluttonous ones')" and as the "Father of Monsters". This is in reality a form of Nyarlathotep, one which is identical to his Black Pharoah aspect save for the pale skin and long reddish blonde hair tied back in a pony tail. He will be dressed in modern clothing and will somehow insinuate himself into the life of the contactee within a few days, remaining evasive and coy as to his identity until his plans for the contactee have begun to bear fruit. Usually these plans involve the granting of boons and favors that ultimately lead to the destruction of the contactee and those around him.


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