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THE VICAR OF MORBING
VYLE
 The
book they couldn't bury!
This
is the legend.
In 1993, a book was published by an obscure
small press, using the author's name 'Richard Harland'. Only
a few copies were printed, which were passed from hand to
hand as news of the contents spread. The book was banned because
of the notorious Chapter 45. Since then, all copies have vanished
into the hands of private collectors or disintegrated through
over-use. Supposedly, the only evidence that the book ever
existed now lies in the recollections of its early readers.
But those recollections are so fragmentary that all attempts
to piece together the story as a whole have failed.
Here's the
reality.
The small press, Karl Evans Publishing,
actually printed 2,000 copies of The Vicar of Morbing Vyle.
For a short while, the book was in the public domain, and,
thanks to secret sympathizers, reviews appeared in major newspapers
such as The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Then a counter-campaign was launched by the agents of vile,
who hunted down and destroyed every copy they could get their
hands on. The book was never banned, but the publisher refused
to reprint.
However, there are vilewatchers
in Australia, US, UK and France who have managed to preserve
copies. Such copies are too precious to circulate openly;
nonetheless, they do exist and can be viewed under certain
strict conditions.
 Nor
is it true that only fragments of the story are known. For
obvious reasons, we can't risk broadcasting the contents to
the world in general, but here on www.vilewatch.com, we can
tell vilewatchers that The Vicar of Morbing Vyle describes
the actual experiences of Martin Smythe among an isolated
community of religious cultists in the Brecklands region of
the UK. The crucial events involve Martin's encounter with
the ultimate force of vileness, the essence incarnate. He
also talks to the disease-riddled Mr Scrab, the oldest member
of the community, who reveals how that same essence manifested
itself almost a hundred years earlier.
Because Mr Scrab's story is crucial to
Martin Smythe's deductions in his Epilogue to The
Black Crusade, we have taken the decision to publish the entire extract.
We do not generally recommend the richardharland.net website, which is riddled with self-serving lies by this pretended author, but it can contains useful material on The Vicar of Morbing Vyle, including a number of other extracts.
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