《七咒赋》 / The Seven Geases

《七咒赋》 / The Seven Geases is one of the main [[ClarkAshtonSmith|Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯]] stories summarized in 73.虚境奇谭：恐怖+幽默=最好的克苏鲁. The episode treats it as the strongest example of Smith’s horror-comedy: a proud official named Ralibar Vooz disrupts a sorcerer’s ritual, is cursed, and is repeatedly transferred from one supernatural recipient to another because none of them wants or needs him.

The story’s comedy depends on cosmic demotion. [[Tsathoggua|萨托古雅]] is too full to accept the offering, Atlach-Nacha is busy weaving, snake people treat the human as already-studied material, and other older beings reject him for practical reasons. The human victim becomes less important each time he is passed along.

Key Claims

• The story turns cosmic horror into Horror-Humor Weird Fiction by making supernatural beings act with deadpan practical constraints.
• Its central joke is also Anti-Anthropocentric Satire: the human is not precious prey but inconvenient surplus.
• The repeated transfer structure is a form of Absurd Rationality because the impossible premise is handled with procedural logic.
• The episode contrasts the story’s lack of conventional victory, romance, or heroic arc with [[WeirdTales|Weird Tales / 诡丽幻谭]]-style editorial expectations.

Connections

• Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯 and [[XujingQitan|《虚境奇谭》]] - author and book context.
• [[Tsathoggua|萨托古雅]] and [[Eibon|伊波恩]] - Smith mythos figures connected through the episode’s Hyperborea material.
• Horror-Humor Weird Fiction, Anti-Anthropocentric Satire, and Absurd Rationality - core concepts illustrated by the story.
• Cthulhu Mythos / 克苏鲁神话 and Cosmic Horror - broader field.