The Mystics of Muelenburg

[Nemonymous]

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THE MYSTICS OF MUELENBURG This classic story, containing a viscously fluid apotheosis of the Ligottan prose style, presents the constructive power of "absolute terror". And doubt as a strengthening of belief. And seeming as more certain than being. Nonchalance and a 'delirium of history' wherein speaking to the dead is more instructive that talking to the living. Byron's 'Darkness' recreated at the end of this story as a nostalgia was merely something to be forgotten...a counterintuitive strength to keep the world from collapsing. Not wood waking up so much as a corpse blending with its coffin. The work tells of Klaus Klingman, "one of the illuminati" and known, among other names, as 'Nemo the Necromancer', and it tells of him telling the narrator of the time of seemingly endless twilight in Muelenburg in an ineffable prose of melted oxymorons. Forgetting is strength. Being alone makes unutterable night a pure enlightenment. And not understanding this story, as well as this whole book, I propose, is the only way of keeping our existence safe. Hence, this still on-going real-time review of the Penguin Classics collection. "...an ancient tree was shunned and rumors spread concerning some change in its twisted silhouette, something flaccid and rope-like about its branches..."

Rationale: Le NŒUD de Ligotti - THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK