Elysia 6
- ELYSIA 6 - A black ink and gray color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in the book, "Elysia: the Coming of Cthulhu," by Brian Lumley, published by Ganley in 1989.
There is a very large building in Paris, France that holds "The Museum of Man". Inside you can see the remains of a two-hundred-thousand year old creature called, "Homo habilis" found in East Africa. When alive, it was about four feet tall, walked upright, and compared with every other creature on earth, it had a much larger brain. It made tools by chipping away at stones, and because of "him" and others like him, you and I are here. . .
The museum is a vast array of large and small rooms, some open for public viewing, others are used for current research. But there is one large room located in a remote area of the museum that contains disturbing collections that make this museum, in my mind, a "House of Horrors" . . .
In the dark recesses of that remote room you will find shrunken heads with leathery lips pulled back over tiny grimacing teeth, a large number of Jars containing human fetuses floating in greenish liquids, long dead Siamese twins joined at the sternum, and a large array of bottles on shelf after shelf containing perfectly preserved human heads of men, women and children of all races. Heads that were decapitated and sent to this museum a long time ago for study. Among them a young mustachioed man, a pretty girl of about four wearing coral ear rings, three infant heads sharing one wide bottle . . . So many human heads with sightless eyes peering out of their bottles . . .
And in another dim part of that awful room you will find shelf after shelf of bottled human brains preserved in formalin. The horror is that whatever "studies" were done on these human remains has long been abandoned. It is time to pay them respect, and bury them.
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