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‘As Down I Came’
Moon Mockery by Robert E. Howard
© 2015 James LaFond
APR/27/15
Reading from the Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard, 2008, Del Ray, NY, page 42
I walked in Tara’s Wood one summer night,
And saw, amid the still, star-haunted skies,
A slender moon in silver mist arise,
And hover on the hill as if in fright.
Burning, I seized her veil and held her tight:
An instant all her glow was in my eyes;
Then she was gone, swift as a white bird flies,
And I went down the hill in opal light.
And soon I was aware, as down I came,
That all was strange and new on every side;
Strange people went about me to and fro,
And when I spoke with trembling mine own name
They turned away, but one man said: “He died
In Tara Wood, a hundred years ago.”
Moon Mockery is as close to a straight ghost story as we will get from Howard. However, all that is required for this to be a blood memory story would be to render it as a dream from whence a protagonist awakens, having learned something of his ancestral past through the upwelling of a not yet extinguished ego from his biology into his dream space. This does bring into question the nature of dream space as very possibly a biological projection—a very limited sphere—as opposed to the ghostly multi-sphere most shamanistic cults have assumed.
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