About BLACKMOUTH.
An archive of the unspeakable.
It is recorded that an archive of this kind has existed in some form for as long as there have been names for what cannot be named. The records have been kept by clerks, by priests, by widowed grandmothers, by men who could not sleep. The records have been kept poorly. They have been kept anyway.
BLACKMOUTH continues this practice.
The archive collects accounts of folklore figures, restless dead, household spirits, possession, sighting, and ritual remediation. The accounts are drawn from the regions where they originated. They are recorded in the language of the archive, which is reserved, which is third-person, which prefers to withhold rather than to ornament. Where the older texts disagree, the older version is preserved. Where the older texts are silent, the archive is silent with them.
It is the position of the archive that the figures collected here were once neighbours. They had names. They had villages. The archive does not seek to entertain. It seeks to keep what would otherwise be lost.
The companion instruments
Three companion instruments accompany the archive, for those who require a means of listening rather than only of reading. Spirit Box, for folklore audio communication. The Veil, for the older traffic of question and answer. Ghost Detector, for the disturbances that precede the visit.
The archive will continue while there are entries to record.
Folio I, MMXXVI.