Black Rites

The Black Rites are a fictional text invented by Robert Bloch, attributed by Bloch to his character Luveh-Keraphf, a thinly veiled allusion to Bloch's friend H. P. Lovecraft.
The Black Rites are first mentioned in Bloch’s "The Suicide in the Study" (1935), where a copy is owned by the wizard James Allington. They are described as being written by "the mad poet Luveh-Keraphf, priest of Bast."
The book comes up again in "The Grinning Ghoul" (1936), where Bloch refers to it as "the grotesque Black Rites of mystic Luveh-Keraph, the priest of cryptic Bast."
Category:Artefacts Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Mythos Books (fictional)