i am criswell! for years i have told the almost unbelievable, related the unreal, and shown it to be more. than a fact. now i tell a tale of the threshold, people, so astounding that some of you may faint.
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it is said on clear nights, beneath the cold light of the moon, howl the dog and the wolf, and creeping things crawl out of the slime. it is then the ghouls feast in all their radiance.
the day is gone, the night is upon us, and the moon, which controls all of the underworld, once again shines. in radiant contentment. come forth, come forth, o princess of darkness.
time seems to stand still. not so the ghouls, when a night of pleasure is at hand!
if i am not pleased by tonight's entertainment, i shall banish their souls to everlasting damnation!
and who is to be first?
ahh, the curiousity of youth.  on the road to ruin! may it ever be so adventurous!
i would see for approval, the one who in life worshipped gold above all else.
throw gold at her.
more gold.
more gold!
more gold!
for all eternity, she shall have gold.
and both couldn't help but remember a line from one of bob's stories: "a sudden wind howls. the night things are all about me. every shadow, a beckoning invitation. to disaster. i know i should think of other things, of pleasant things, but i can't. how can i think of other things, of pleasant things, when i am in a place surrounded by shadows and objects, which can take any shape, here in the darkness. any shape my mind can conceive."
bring 'em in!
they are live ones?
live ones where only the dead should be?
you shall both be rewarded. my dear empress of the night, put these intruders to the test.
a situation easily remedied.
a pussycat is born to be whipped.
it will please me very much to see the slave girl with her tortures!
torture! torture! it pleasures me!
hold!
let her continue to learn. the time is not yet right that they should join with us.
and what is this?
what kind of symbol?
she came to us on the day of the dead.
her dance has pleased me.
she was?
oh, yes, a religion of sorts.
she pleases me. permit her to live in the world of the snakes.
now, i will talk. to the wolf man. and the mummy.
of course you are.
you know better than that.
then why do you shake so?
well rest easy, i'm not angry with either of you.
you are the keepers of the damned. you two know them all. and i am tired of this usual type of entertainment. i want. a decided change.
yes, yes yes i know all that.
i suppose most of the others will have to wait for their judgement until after the next full moon.
ahh, but i declare there is still time for something.
ahh, good. then i will see them. dismiss the rest.
not yet. i perhaps have other plans for such a pretty one. no matter, i will tell you when and if you may have her.
have you not enjoyed the evening's festivities?
ahh, that will soon change when you become one of us!
it would seem that the wolf man would have you for his own!
i have promised both the wolf man and the mummy a reward. it could be that you are that reward.
you need not worry. not just now, anyway.
fiend is it! you will not be so fortunate. your existence will cease within moments. no one wishes to see a man dance.  and you, my dear, will entertain for centuries to come.
oh, you could do nothing! i can save you much pain.
i do not joke in my proposal.
the princess of darkness would have you for her own to join us through extreme pain. yet i am inclined for one as lovely as you, to be more lenient. i have but to touch you with my finger, and it would mean the end of you, all over, quickly and painlessly.
i repulse you? very well. it seems you have chosen your own fate. live with it! i should say die with it!
ahh, she will be yours.
at your discretion. but first, i desire more entertainment.
ahh, there is yet time.
i know the laws of the night. i state there is still time for yet another.
your own pleasure comes only after mine, when i desire it. i am the sole ruler of the dark world. there is no one to challenge my authority here. my word is the law--all powerful. no one is to challenge that authority, no one!. is that understood? it is my command.
then see that it does not happen again, in the penalty of everlasting despair. now are there others?
well then let us proceed.
i will decide the conclusion.
then cancel my order.
there is yet time. don't you want your own pleasure?
hahh, there is always time.  all in good time. there is always time. you shall have your pleasure. that.  i decree
the time. is short.
your pleasures of course!
you may take her now.
you better hope there is.
now hurry, hurry. i will watch! your desires may be my pleasure also. our fitting climax to an evening's enter- tainment. you must. hurry now.
as it is with all the night people, they are destroyed by the first rays of the sun. but upon the first appearance of the deep shadows of the night, and when the moon is full, they will return, to rejoice. in their evil lust, and take back with them any mortal who might happen along. cut to:
Yes, they were lucky, those two young people. May you be so lucky. But do not trust to luck, at the full of the moon, when the night is dark. Make a wide path around the unholy grounds. of the Night People. Who can say that we do not exist-Can you?