Ethan Haas Is Coming…

…to a movie theatre near you? Or not, since JJ Abrams denies there is a link.

"The great cycle, the beginning and the end, turns just as the plans of the gods turn once again to the world of men.

And they will come upon the earth only after the skies rain down fire and the very earth itself is made to shake and the great cities of men fall into ruins. Their plans are set and their purpose is clear; they come for war."

Posted by Mezin Source

When the dwelling-place of the ‘mad’ Arab, Abdul Alhazred was excavated in 1923 by Professor Bernard Houston and his team from Miskatonic University, it is known that they discovered the human skin leaved original of the ‘Kitab Al-Azif’ (literally, ‘The Book of the Howling of the Djinn’, that we know as the Necronomicon) Whether, by some eccentric and eclectic means, this dig disturbed the ‘dead but dreaming gods’ – Cthulhu and his ill-omened ilk – has not been revealed, except by those who have consequently been incarcerated in maximum security insane asylums before their untimely and bizarre deaths and, naturally, the angekoks of the Inuit (Esquimaux). Perhaps the Necronomicon was chanted aloud…

Just as the Tomb of Tutankhamun (also excavated in 1923) was cursed, so was the Abode of Alhazred, particularly so since both met violent ends – Tutankhamun’s skull displays damage and Alhazred was eaten alive by an invisible devil-beast.

The following quotation is from the Necronomicon and is similar in tone to the that from the Ethan Haas Was Wrong website:

‘…Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, and after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They rule again.’ Mentally translated by Dr. Henry Armitage, looking over the shoulder of Wilbur Whateley in the Library of Miskatonic University, from the Latin version of Olaus Wormius, as printed in Spain in the seventeenth century.

Of course, one person’s god is another’s extra-terrestrial intelligence…