Worm That Walks
Worm That Walks — a species or servitor line; field taxonomy provisional, behaviour not. Register ME-1935-S11/8998.
Overview
Expedition register ME-1935-S11/8998 — cross-index under slug `worm-that-walks`.
Field notes on Worm That Walks read like zoology until the specimen looks back and the notebook stops mid-sentence.
Aggregate of worms bearing a sorcerer's consciousness in Derleth pastiche.
Period attestation: post-lovecraft.
Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.
Description
Often tied to Nyogtha and De Vermis Mysteriis in gaming.
Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.
Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.
Historical Record
Not Lovecraft's creation; cite Derleth or RPG edition.
Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.
Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.
Field Observations
Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.
Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.
What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `worm-that-walks` in all cross-references. What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
Related Records
Cross-References
GOO-208
activeNyogtha
The Thing That Should Not Be
A shadowy dweller under the earth — summoned by mistake in Henry Kuttner's "The Salem Horror" and thereafter listed among the gods who hate light.
CON-002
activeForbidden Knowledge
Epistemic Hazard
Information whose acquisition damages the seeker - truths the mind evolved specifically not to accommodate, and that no degree of education prepares one to survive.
CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
Philosophical Classification
Horror arising not from personal evil but from the insignificance of humanity before an indifferent, incomprehensible cosmos - the aesthetic that governs every file in this archive.
TOM-001
fragmentaryNecronomicon
Al Azif, Book of Dead Names
The most infamous grimoire of the mythos, an Arabic manuscript of rituals, histories, and formulae that erode the sanity of readers and have never been wholly suppressed, only scattered.