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A/N: This chapter is rather short, but it feels finished. Also, this way I won't have a half-chapter floating around for months on end.

( Chapter 24: Behind the Bushes )

A/N: Thank Lovecraft and his 1931 story The Whisperer in the Darkness for the title term as well as "Lord of the Woods". The chapter title is a reference, of course, to For Whom the Bell Tolls.

( Chapter 23: For Whom the Goat Bleets )

A/N: Despite suspicious similarities and outraged villagers, I am not criticizing any religion in particular. One-eyed Larry is from PotC: AWELucretia's rule for stew is from TPratchett. The Cod/Carp concept came from a typo in an email I received from Josie, titled "Holy Carp!". Things just got a bit out of hand from there, especially with ( Read more... )

A/N: I haven't written in this 'verse for so long, the characters are worried. And in a bit of bad place.

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A/N:Notes: The one-eyed tomcat is, of course, TPratchett's Greebo. "Gibbous" comes from NGaiman’s character Wolfe (or was it Seth?) in “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” criticizing HPLovecraft's writing style, and Mr and Mrs Owens, in Cry of the Kalahari, thanking their friend who said no novel is complete without a gibbous moon.

( Chapter 21: Different Tastes )

( Chapter 20: The Substitute )

A/N: What the women are muttering over the pots is, obviously, from Hamlet. The man with the snacks is a more disturbing version of CMOT Dibbler whilst the dog is Gaspod (The Wonder Dog), both from TPratchett's Disworld novels. The soup is part Neil Gaiman (who wrote of, in Shoggoth's Old Peculair, a beer "advertisers would describe as "full- ( Read more... )

A/N: Both the "camel hump" reference and the phrase about the Black King stem from NGaiman's Shoggoth's Old Peculair and the title he gives for HPLovecraft's Nyarlathotep. The "Lord of the Woods" also comes from Lovecraft: Whisperer in the darkness (1931), but the "Darth" bit is just Sithly. Quasi's fear came out more serious than I'd first ( Read more... )

A/N: "Astrophel" comes from the poem "Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella" by Philip Sidney, and was innitially supposed to be called called Madness, but the joke didn't really work. Frank is the name of LJ's mascot. The bit about the mouth and the screaming was scribbled by me years ago but, since I've seen it referenced since, it must be from the ( Read more... )