We thought you might like to hear the entire song from the Heaven & Hell Club scene. The song was actually written in 1926, so it is a little anachronistic to include it, but we thought it was worth the slight cheat. It is by Friedrich Hollaender, and was originally recorded by Claire Waldoff. Hollaender went on to write the hit songs for the film that made Marlene Dietrich a star, The Blue Angel. Our thanks to Sigrid Grajek for giving us permission to use the audio of her performance of the song.

Marlene Dietrich was, of course, a very real person, and we were delighted to realize that she really did play the violin in cabarets in Berlin when she was 17 years old. We couldn't resist the idea that it was she who not only introduced Charlie to his preferred alcoholic beverage, but got him started on his ability to order drinks in every language on Earth.

Although his name sounds entirely fanciful, Alexis Vincent Charles Berbiquier de Terre-Neuve du Thym was also a real person, and he really did believe himself to be tormented by strange supernatural creatures, as he described in a lengthy book on the subject.

Even though Kasimir uses the existence of this magazine only as a pretext to get Charlie into Herr Frenzel's book shop, "The Orchid Garden" was a real publication, and the world's very first fantasy magazine. We first became aware of it through friend and HPLHS member Thomas Negovan, who offers collections of some of the best art printed in the magazine through his Century Guild book shop. If, unlike Charlie, you can read German, you can enjoy the first three years' worth of the complete magazines HERE!

In order to make one of the prop documents for this episode, Andrew sculpted a primitive amulet of Tsathoggua. Designed first as an illustration, he used the HPLHS laser cutter to prepare a layered cardboard mockup, and then covered that with clay and worked out the surface details. He made a mold of that clay sculpture, and cast a copy in brass-filled polyurethane resin. Meanwhile, a very talented calligrapher named Josh Berer translated the final testament of Selim Bahadur into genuine medieval Turkish, while Darrell Tutchton created an ink drawing of Tsathoggua. The calligraphy and drawing were combined digitally to make a scroll, and it was photographed along with the resin cast of the amulet (and a crushed lacquered box from eBay) in Sean's backyard. The resulting photo is one of the props for the episode.

Andrew's clay sculpture was sufficient for this photo, but we wanted something a little better, so using 3D modeling and the help of HPLHS member Travis Hammer we created a 3D printable version of the amulet with more refined details. Travis printed up eight duplicates of the amulet, and we had them cast in solid pewter and plated in an antiqued gold finish. We have paired it with the complete scroll of Selim Bahadur. In the photo you can only see one side, and only in black and white, but in this beautiful prop replica you get both sides in full color. Together they are crucial elements from Robert E. Howard's classic Mythos story plucked from Charlie Tower's bank vault and come to life in your hands! GET YOURS TODAY!