Flying Coffins

Overview

Miskatonic seal ME-1931-U70/6915 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `flying-coffins`.

Flying Coffins enters the archive under protest from reason and with sponsorship from repeated evidence.

We would delete Flying Coffins if deletion worked; instead we classify, cross-link, and warn.

Lovecraft's own prose — when he is the witness — should be read in the /library before this summary is trusted. Posthumous expansion (Derleth, Smith, Campbell, Wilson, and the game industry) enlarged the name without enlarging the proof; we mark those layers explicitly so students do not cite a 1981 module as 1928 fact.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Description

Scale estimates in the files range from human to architectural, which usually means the observer was not the unit of measure.

Scale estimates in the files range from human to architectural, which usually means the observer was not the unit of measure.

Sound, when recorded, has been described as wet leather, glass harmonics, or bees inside a skull; analysts note infrasound may explain some, not all.

Historical Record

Earliest stack mention is a photocopy of a photocopy of Latin marginalia — chain of custody unsuitable for court, sufficient for caution.

European parallels appear in Smith and Howard overlaps; do not merge pantheons without reading both authors in full.

A 1931 Miskatonic committee voted to suppress photography; the vote is on file, the plates are not.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; two witnesses minimum, three preferred if the name was spoken aloud.

If dreams arrive with the weight of memory for places never visited, terminate contact.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Archive Notes

Protocol slug `flying-coffins`. The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.