You guys have done the impossible. You've made 'An Even Scarier Solstice' better than 'A Very Scary Solstice'! -Julie K.

Three years ago the HPLHS recorded A Very Scary Solstice - a delightful yet hideous combining of over-commercialized holiday tunes and the unspeakable horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. However improbable, the enterprise proved popular. So, armed with more songs, more singers, and an honest-to-goodness musician (Troy Sterling Nies, composer of much of the score for The Call of Cthulhu), we set out to bring you some more holiday songs given the Lovecraftian treatment.

Both our solstice offerings provide a CD of songs and a fun annotated sing-along songbook. Both have introductions by respected Mythos authors, and both are really quite a lot of fun. Click here to download a free MP3 of BLUE SOLSTICE and hear for yourself!

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The CDs
Both CDs feature ensembles of talented professional singers. Thrill to the magnificent sounds of the Dagon Tabernacle Choir. Marvel at the exsquisite harmonies of the Arkham Carolers. Tap your tentacles along with the Dunwich Children's Chorale. All numbers are professionally produced and recorded with the same maniacal care that made A Shoggoth on the Roof such a disturbing achievement in musical theatre. From beatific choirs to maniacal mariachis, there's something for everyone in the first-ever CD of Lovecraftian Solstice Carols. An Even Scarier Solstice delves into the musical styles of country, gospel, and things we cannot and must not describe.

The Song Book
In 1988 the HPLHS published its first collection of holiday songs rewritten to include the dark forces lurking at the boundaries of perception. We expanded the old songbook to a full twenty-five numbers. In addition to providing the lyrics in an easy sing-along format, we've extensively annotated the songs. Learn the strange but true stories behind favorite holiday carols and relish bizarre tidbits of Lovecraftian holiday ephemera.

The 40-page songbook for A Very Scary Solstice includes a preface by the esteemed Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, who reveals HPL's personal thoughts about the holidays and seasonal poetry written by HPL himself.

An Even Scarier Solstice features a preface by Mythos author Ramsey Campbell. As a special treat, our composer Troy Sterling Nies set Lovecraft's holiday poem, "A Brumalian Wish" to music, creating what we think is the world's first non-parodic Lovecraftian Christmas carol. Plus it's bound in our weird "shoggoth skin" paper.

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Songs from A Very Scary Solstice

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men

Great Old Ones Are Coming to Town

The Carol of the Olde Ones

Freddy the Red Brained Mi-Go

Oh Cthulhu Chorus

Do You Fear What I Fear?

Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones

I'm Dreaming of a Dead City

Cthulhu Lives

Tentacles

It's the Most Horrible Time of the Year

Dance the Cultists

Demon Sultan Azathoth

Es Y'Golonac

Have Yourself a Scary Little Solstice

Here Comes Yog-Sothoth

He'll Be Back for Solstice

I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog Sothoth

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men

Little Rare Books Room

Mi-Go We Have Heard on High

Mythos of a King

Oh Come All Ye Olde Ones

The Shoggoth Song

Silent Night, Blasphemous Night

Away in a Madhouse

Songs from An Even Scarier Solstice

All I Want for Solstice is My Sanity Blue Solstice (whole song - FREE) A Brumalian Wish The Cultist Song A Cyclopean Tomb (down in deep R'lyeh) Death May Die Death to the World The Deep One Song (Solstice in R'lyeh) Eerie Dreary Solstice The Festival Go, Summon Up the Dead Ones Harley Got Devoured by the Undead Hail Great Old Ones It's Mi-Go! Look! Professor Angell Brings Mountains of Madness Slay Ride Unholy Night We Three Friends of HPL Are We Wish You a Scary Solstice What Thing Is This? The World in Terror and Madness Lies The Worst Hotel

Download the Sheet Music
Many of our Solstice carols are presented in full choral arrangements. The truly insane among you are welcome to download the sheet music to the hideously complex harmonies if you and your friends want to sing along in full choir mode. All sheet music is in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Click the titles below to download.

Death to the World (3.3Mb)

Look! Professor Angell Brings (2.1Mb)

Unholy Night (3.8Mb)

We Three Friends of HPL Are (3Mb)

The Carol of the Olde Ones (860Kb)

Oh Cthulhu (1Mb).

Awake Ye Scary Great Olde Ones (1.5Mb).

Dance the Cultists (1.2Mb).

Demon Sultan Azathoth (832Kb).

Review-o-Matic
Bought A Very Scary Solstice? Have something to say? Then by all means write your review on our Review-o-Matic page and have it posted on the Cthulhu Lives website. Read the comments of our meeping and gibbering fans here.

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	The chorus for Go, Summon Up The Dead Ones in the ritzy HPLHS Studios