Exham Priory - I took up residence in '23
Cult of Blasphemy - The Ghastly Secret in my family
Legendary sins - The portly Captain Norrys filled me in
Phantom scurryings - The nightmare infestation now begins

Twilit grotto filled with fungous things
The Daemon Swineherd leers and grins
RATS! Raining from the sky
Haunting, killing, eating 'till they die

Nigger-Man, my cat - led us to the source of phantom rats
The Sub-Cellar below - with its ancient bloody sacrificial stone
In Exham's lowest place - Nigger-Man scratched at the Altar's base
Beneath the stone we found - a bone-littered stairway leading... down

Twilit grotto, sub-humanity
That Daemon Swineherd looks like me!
RATS! raining from the sky
Haunting, killing, eating 'till we die
with dread -
we descend -
ever down -
underground
Eerie twilight shows the way, We hesitate - We're only men...
Is that nightmare grotto real? What waits for us around the bend...

NO! ALL IS TRUE
SEE! NIGHTMARE REMAINS
VAST PILES OF DEATH
BONES CANNIBAL HELL!

BUTCHERED HUMAN SHEEP
HORRID BODY PITS
SOMETHING CALLING ME
MADNESS! YAWNING PITS

Running into darkness, evil hunger in my brain
The tainted blood of DeLaPoer is burning in my veins
They found me staring in the black beneath the priory
Near the half-devoured Captain Norrys - They say that it was me!


"...Now they have blown up Exham Priory, taken my Nigger-Man away from me, and shut me into this barred room at Hanwell with fearful whispers about my heredity and experience... When I speak of poor Norrys they accuse me of a hideous thing, but they must know that I did not do it. They must know it was the rats; the slithering scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, THE RATS IN THE WALLS." - H.P. LOVECRAFT