The Equestrian Dead

Legend has it, that it was written by the dark ones: NECRONOMICON EX MORTES; Roughly translated...The Book of the Dead. To trace the origin of the Book, we must go back...back...to a day when spirits ruled Equestria. When the seas ran red with blood. It was this blood that was used to ink the book. The Book of the Dead was last seen in 1300 AD. It was then that the dark spirits again rose up to battle the living. There, it lay dormant. Waiting... Now, a professor and his wife, keen scholars of the dark arts of the past, have got their hooves on it. They resided in an old cabin, somewhere in the Everfree, where they studied the demonic book in solitude...

The Professor sat alone at his desk in the cellar, transcribing pages from the Book and writing notes into it, "Kanda...Estrata...Ta-toon...Hazan sobar...Ear-Grets, Gat, ...Nos-feratos...Amantos...Kanda!". His wife sat in a rocking chair sealed in the darkness. At the sound of the this chant, she stood up, eyes bone white and blood running down her mouth as if she were drooling. The Professor heard noises upstairs and rushed up. He saw his wife, or what used to be her. In panic, he sealed the trap door shut. He was frantically writing into the book.

"It has only been a few hours since I've translated and spoke aloud the first of the demon resurrection passages from the Book of the Dead. And now, I fear that my wife has become host to a Kandarian demon. May Celestia forgive me for what I have unleashed onto this earth..."

The wife burst into the cellar screeching and the Professor screamed as she tore him to shreds, eating his insides. It was then that the devils of Tartarus were released onto Equestria.