G'HARNE FRAGMENTS

The Litany of Shudde M'ell

EDITED by ALLEN MACKEY

Note: "The Litany of Shudde M'ell" is quoted in its entirety in a

certain chapter of the Necronomicon, which is apparently where
author Brian Lumley found it and published it in his 1969 short story
"Cement Surroundings," which later became a chapter in his first
novel, The Burrowers Beneath. To be sure, nowhere is it hinted in
his fiction that this passage is from the G'harne Fragments.
However, I recently acquired copies of a few pages of Sir Amery
Wendy-Smith's treatise on the subject, one of which contained the
following:

Ce’haiie ep-ngh fl’hur G’harne fhtagn,

Ce’haiie fhtagn ngh Shudde-M’ell.

Hai G’harne orr’e ep fl’hur,

Shudde-M’ell ican-icanicas fl’hur orr’e G’harne…

Commentary: I have been unable to find more of the Litany, although

it is said to be well-known to certain Elder Brotherhoods in Africa.