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A Very Scary Solstice: The HPLHS Solstice Carol Songbook

A Very Scary Solstice: The HPLHS Solstice Carol Songbook

Philip Bell
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Christmas is a rip-off. That's the sad truth. The entire holiday as celebrated today is an artificially constructed combination of pagan rites, cultural traditions, religious ceremonies and marketing nonsense with only the most tenuous connection to an ancient observation of an astronomical event: the winter solstice. And we're OK with that.
In 1853, an English church warden named John Mason Neale managed to get his, hands on a sixteenth-century Swedish collection of medieval Latin songs called Piae Cantione. He and his partner decided to tinker with the music and write some new lyrics. Their efforts resulted in a catchy little ditty celebrating Christian charity for the holiday season: "Good King Wenceslas." True to the spirit of Christmas, they ripped off an old song and made something new. The fruits of their labors have been enjoyed by millions world-wide. Like Christmas itself, many holiday carols are simply repackaged versions of earlier works.
In that true holiday spirit, member of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society have always enjoyed combining music, holiday cheer, and nihilistic cosmic terror: we used to go Solstice caroling and alarm passers-by on the streets of Boulder, Colorado back in the 1980s. Now we joyfully bring a selection of these Mythos holiday songs to you. In addition to providing the lyrics in an easy sing-along format, we've extensively annotated the songs. Learn the strange but true stories behind favorite holiday carols and relish bizarre tidbits of Lovecraftian holiday lore. We've even included the sheet music for selected numbers.
The songbook features a preface by the esteemed Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, who reveals HPL's personal thoughts about the holidays, and seasonal poetry written by HPL himself. You'll enjoy the holiday season in a whole new way with A Very Scary Solstice.

The book contains the lyrics for:
Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones
Away in a Madhouse
The Carol of the Olde Ones
Cthulhu Lives!
Dance the Cultists
Demon Sultan Azathoth
Do You Fear What I Fear?
Es Y'Golonac
Freddy the Red Brained Mi-Go
Great Old Ones are Coming to Town
Have Yourself a Scary Little Solstice
He'll Be Back for Solstice
Here Comes Yog-Sothoth
I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth
I'm Dreaming of a Dead City
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men
It's the Most Horrible Time of the Year
Little Rare Book Room
Mi-Go We Have Heard on High
Mythos of a King
Oh Come All Ye Olde Ones
Oh Cthulhu!
The Shoggoth Song
Silent Night, Blasphemous Night
Tentacles

And the sheet music for:
Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones
The Carol of the Olde Ones
Dance the Cultists
Demon Sultan Azathoth
I'm Dreaming of a Dead City
Oh Cthulhu!
Language
English
Pages
71
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Release
May 07, 2022

A Very Scary Solstice: The HPLHS Solstice Carol Songbook

Philip Bell
4.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Christmas is a rip-off. That's the sad truth. The entire holiday as celebrated today is an artificially constructed combination of pagan rites, cultural traditions, religious ceremonies and marketing nonsense with only the most tenuous connection to an ancient observation of an astronomical event: the winter solstice. And we're OK with that.
In 1853, an English church warden named John Mason Neale managed to get his, hands on a sixteenth-century Swedish collection of medieval Latin songs called Piae Cantione. He and his partner decided to tinker with the music and write some new lyrics. Their efforts resulted in a catchy little ditty celebrating Christian charity for the holiday season: "Good King Wenceslas." True to the spirit of Christmas, they ripped off an old song and made something new. The fruits of their labors have been enjoyed by millions world-wide. Like Christmas itself, many holiday carols are simply repackaged versions of earlier works.
In that true holiday spirit, member of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society have always enjoyed combining music, holiday cheer, and nihilistic cosmic terror: we used to go Solstice caroling and alarm passers-by on the streets of Boulder, Colorado back in the 1980s. Now we joyfully bring a selection of these Mythos holiday songs to you. In addition to providing the lyrics in an easy sing-along format, we've extensively annotated the songs. Learn the strange but true stories behind favorite holiday carols and relish bizarre tidbits of Lovecraftian holiday lore. We've even included the sheet music for selected numbers.
The songbook features a preface by the esteemed Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, who reveals HPL's personal thoughts about the holidays, and seasonal poetry written by HPL himself. You'll enjoy the holiday season in a whole new way with A Very Scary Solstice.

The book contains the lyrics for:
Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones
Away in a Madhouse
The Carol of the Olde Ones
Cthulhu Lives!
Dance the Cultists
Demon Sultan Azathoth
Do You Fear What I Fear?
Es Y'Golonac
Freddy the Red Brained Mi-Go
Great Old Ones are Coming to Town
Have Yourself a Scary Little Solstice
He'll Be Back for Solstice
Here Comes Yog-Sothoth
I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth
I'm Dreaming of a Dead City
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men
It's the Most Horrible Time of the Year
Little Rare Book Room
Mi-Go We Have Heard on High
Mythos of a King
Oh Come All Ye Olde Ones
Oh Cthulhu!
The Shoggoth Song
Silent Night, Blasphemous Night
Tentacles

And the sheet music for:
Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones
The Carol of the Olde Ones
Dance the Cultists
Demon Sultan Azathoth
I'm Dreaming of a Dead City
Oh Cthulhu!
Language
English
Pages
71
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Release
May 07, 2022

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