Church Of Starry Wisdom - (H.P. Lovecraft-The Haunter Of The Dark) - Music Of The Cthulhu Mythos

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In 1932 as Dr. Henry Armitage of Miskatonic University continued his research relating to weird occult phenomenon and esoteric cult activity with the help of what few students would return to accompany him after the frightful discoveries the following year, this recording was made in the area around Morgantown, West Virginia. While discussing his work with a professor of social anthropology on the campus of West Virginia University, Dr. Armitage was made aware of strange traditions in the music of the local squatters that lived around 8 miles west of the university. Armitage could not resist the opportunity to gather what he hoped would be more clues that would help tie together the loosely knitted hints of a nationwide, or dare he think, worldwide cult tradition of the "Old Ones". The West Virginia University professor obliged him the opportunity and led him to the ragged encampment two days after.
After reaching the small, rustic community that day, what Dr. Armitage and his students gleaned from the half-drunk, unkempt squatters left them quite puzzled and yet terrified. As the obviously uneducated and illiterate group of musician began syncopate, a strange sense of sober intensity seemed to grip them and the music began to take on an almost ritualistic fervor. The song that Dr. Armitage and his uneasy students gathered that day referred to a "Haunter Of The Dark" and a "Church Of Starry Wisdom on Federal Hill", but at that time they were unaware of any such location. It would be but a few years later that Dr. Armitage would learn of strange and harrowing events in Providence, Rhode Island that would make the tale of the song much more terrifying and real, but yet no clearer as to the entity that was involved.
What amazed Armitage even further upon learning of the events that took place in Providence years later, was that the mountain squatters could have known or had even heard tell of such a legend in a location so far away or so many years before it became more evident to learned circles. Dr. Armitage thought to himself many times...."If only young Robert Blake could have heard this recording....perhaps he would be with us today".