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De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm, is a fictional grimoire
created by Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore
of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Creation The tome first appears in Bloch's short story "The Shambler from
the Stars" (1935), in which a character reads a passage from the book and
accidentally summons an extradimensional horror.
Bloch, then a teenager, corresponded with Lovecraft about the story prior
to its publication, in part to get permission to kill off a character based
on the older writer. While giving his enthusiastic blessing, Lovecraft also
suggested that the book featured in the story, named by Bloch as Mysteries
of the Worm, be referred to instead by the Latin equivalent De Vermis
Mysteriis.
Lovecraft also provided Bloch with a bit of Latin to use as an invocation
from the book: "Tibi, magnum Innominandum, signa stellarum nigra
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