Arise, crepuscular and bilious moon,
and bid the wolves lift up their throats and croon!
For from his crypt the vampire has burst
and roams abroad to slake his raging thirst!
And if you wonder where he stalks his kill,
it’s in the little town of Chestnut Hill–
In through your midnight window will he come
and like a pirate with a [...]

Some time ago (or so the rumors tell)
As if he were to pick the locks of hell
An alchemist decocted a strange potion
That could endow the long deceased with motion,
Give them again the sail of living breath
And raise them from the worm-feast known as death.
Upon a night, right here in Chestnut Hill,
In an old graveyard near [...]

My name is Henry Jekyl, –As you see,
I am employed here by the library.
I was a doctor once–yes, that is true:
A brilliant theorist and a healer, too.
But I dared tamper with what no man should,
The fractal line that severs bad from good.
Now, though I was myself a sterling fellow,
A kindly gentle sort, quite sweet and [...]

Canto I: Valley of the Kings
The mummycase at last had been unsealed
and Hotep’s bandaged figure lay revealed,
wherat the dark man in the fez observed,
“This mummy is imperfectly preserved.”
“But surely,” said the archaeologist,
“of those I’ve seen this one’s by far the best,”
–indeed, I’d say, more thoroughly intact
than Ramses’ famous mummy.” “There’a fact,”
replied Ephrami, “that you may [...]