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I had always found the organ plane at St. Barnaby highly interesting.

Learned and scientific it was, too much so from my small knowledge but expressing a vivid if cold

intelligence moreover it possessed the French quality of taste taste

taste reign supreme self-controlled, dignified, and reticent.

Today, however, from the first chord I had felt a change for the worse, a sinister change.

During Vespers, it had been chiefly the chancel organ which

supported the beautiful choir, but now and again,

from the West Gallery where the Great Orkin stands, a heavy hand had struck across the church at the serene piece of those clear voices.

It was something more than harsh and dissonant, and it betrayed no lack of skill.

As it recur again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom

in early times to consecrate the choir as soon as it was built,

and that the nave, being finished sometimes half a century later, often did not get any blessing

at all.

I wondered idly if that had been the case at St. Barnaby,

and whether something not usually supposed to be at home in a Christian church

might have entered undetected and taken possession of the West Gallery.

I had read of such things happening too, but not in works on architecture.

Those were a couple of paragraphs about demonic gentrification pulled from the opening of in the court of the dragon, a story by Robert W Chambers from his 1895 collection, The King in Yellow.

And we're going to talk about this story today on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

I'm Chad Fyfer.

And I'm Chris Laki. We're here at H.Podcraft.com and of course, Patreon. And today we are joined by legendary game designer Robin de Laws.

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