With my horrified eyes I see the path
That the galley slowly takes
The cursed path to the dark side of the moon
Where larvae of the Other Gods preach gloom and doom
Seeing the leprous-looking coast
Smelling the hideous stench of that city
I feel my hopes disappearing one by one
In this coldness far from the sun
Creatures that don’t belong to dreams but to nightmares
Of unspeakable ones, the heirs
Tiled streets and black doorways
Images of death and infinite decay
Imprisoned as their non-human slaves
I can only hear the cries of their abject procession
The incandescent light of the torches
The strange sound through that star-specked darkness
Terrified, abandoned to my fate
I fear the crawling chaos’ gaze
I feel the silence
The silence announcing the arrival of the messenger
I have been through so much
In my dreamlike journeys
I felt so ready, so ready to touch
Its marble walls tinted with gold
Yet I cry
For having been so naive
But I hear the animal and familiar cries
Of those from Ulthar
A fantastic chorus invades this place of distress
The call of the clan had been given
Resonating throughout dreamlands
A cloud of smothering fur
A phalanx of murderous claws
Fighting in the name of Bubastis
The cats of Ulthar unleash all their fury
In blood-stained cloud
My eyes shine in front of this chaos
Covering the gray rocks, in feline wrath
Cats open my way to Kadath
“Legions of cats from the alleys nocturnal,
Howling and lean in the glare of the moon,
Screaming the future with mouthings infernal,
Yelling the burden of Pluto’s red rune”