Star Vampire Summoning Ritual

[The_Usernameless_Horror]

Does anyone own a copy of 'The Shambler from the Stars'? If so, could they possibly post the words of the latin ritual used to summon star vampires?

Thanx

[richardwatts]

'I sat there dully, like a stupid, uncomprehending fool. Why did I not scream, try to escape, or tear that monstrous manuscript from his hands? Instead I sat there - sat there while my friend, in a voice cracked with unnatural excitement, read in Latin a long and sonorously sinister invocation.

"Tibi Magnum Innominandum, signa stellarum nigrarum et bufaniformis Sadoquae sigillum..."

The croaking ritual proceeded, then rose on wings of nighted, hideous horror. The words seemed to writhe like flames in the air, burning into my brain. The thundering tones cast an echo into infinity, beyond the farthermost star. They seemed to pass into primal and undimensioned gates, to seek out a listener there, and summon him to earth. Was it all an illusion? I did not pause to ponder.

For that unwitting summons was answered...'

Robert Bloch, The Shambler from the Stars

Robert Price notes that Lovecraft supplied the young Bloch with the translation of the summoning as well as the Latin title of 'Mysteries of the Worm':

[/i]'To the Great One Not To be Named: Sign of the Black Stars and of Toad-shaped Tsathoggua...'

[The_Usernameless_Horror]

Thanx.