[Excerpt: Gloomspite] Creepy nursery rhyme about the Bad Moon
>Listen, child, and heed me well
A grave warning you must fear
Get to bed and silent stay
Lest the blackened cap might hear
Shuttered must the windows be
Your eyes, quickly, close them fast
Or the Bad Moon's light you'll see
And the sight will be your last
>It comes now, rising high above
It's heard your hue and cry
The Bad Moon fills the velvet dark
And beady is its eye
Those naughty children that it sees
Know Sigmar cannot save
Grobi the Blackcap comes for all
A-squirming from his cave
>A crown upon the Loonking's head
A staff clutched in his hand
Both twisted by the fungus moon
Both blackened like his heart
Don't let him see you, little one
Don't let him hear you cry
Or down into the darksome depths
He'll bear you off to die
- Azyrheimer nursery rhyme
The novel Gloomspite by Andy Clark has parts of a nursery rhyme at the start of each of its acts. I hadn't seen it posted in full before, so I figured I'd transcribe it. I listened to the audio book though, so I may have gotten one or two things incorrect.
Anyway, I love this rhyme! It makes the Gloomspite Gitz and the Bad Moon so creepy, plus I love the fairy tale vibes of it. The Gitz are often comic relief, but the novel does a great job showing how terrifying they can be. The threat they pose feels genuinely apocalyptic.
I highly recommend the novel to Gitz fans, or anyone looking for a nice horror story. I was uncertain about the heroes' fates right up until the final page.