SCP-3138

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**SCP-3138:** A Sepulcher by the Sea
**Author:** [[*user the great hippo]]
**Images:** [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borremose_Man.jpg Link].

Inspired by [[*user Peppersghost]]'s [[[chicago-spirit|Chicago Spirit]]], and [[*user Taffeta]]'s [[[to-be-noir-not-to-be|To Be Noir Not To Be]]].

**Music:** [https://youtu.be/04F4xlWSFh0 Bodies] (Drowning Pool)

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[[include component:image-block name=metaphor.jpg|caption=Vaughn L. Kaminski; recovered from a 1921 edition of //Great Expectations//.]]

**Item #:** SCP-3138

**Object Class:** Euclid

**Special Containment Procedures:** Foundation personnel embedded in literary and academic circles are to be briefed on SCP-3138; they are to report any fictional work discovered to deviate from its canonical number of human corpses.

A Foundation-operated bot (I/O-MANDELA) is to monitor websites and online communities centered on discussions of printed media; discussions regarding books that describe more human corpses than previously expected are to be flagged for review.

Upon discovery, any printed work of fiction suspected of being affected by SCP-3138 is to be recovered and reviewed by MTF Rho-1 ("The Professors"). Should it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued. Otherwise, affected works are to be kept on-site in a secure locker. Access is restricted to Level-4 personnel.

**Description:** SCP-3138 is a phenomenon involving the insertion of human corpses into a printed work of published fiction. The work must convey a narrative capable of recognizably describing the presence of a human corpse.

Inserted corpses will be depicted in a manner suited to the work; for example, a corpse inserted into a poem relying upon a particular rhyming scheme will be described via this rhyme scheme. Extraction of inserted corpses can be accomplished by destroying the work or editing it to remove the depiction of a corpse. Should this occur, all erased corpses will immediately emerge from the text in question. Notably, corpses that emerge during these events are non-anomalous, and show signs of decay reminiscent of extended submersion in an acidic environment.

The method by which SCP-3138 is accomplished has yet to be determined.

**Addendum 3138.1:** Recovery Logs

[[collapsible show="► ACCESS SCP:/3138/recovery/102.log" hide="▼ Close File"]]
> = **RECOVERY LOG**
> ----
> **DISCOVERY DATE:** 16/03/1942
> **SUBJECT:** A 1921 paperback edition of //Great Expectations// by Charles Dickens.
> ----
>> = //**{{GREAT EXPECTATIONS}}**//
>>
>> **{{@@    @@‘Bless your soul and body, no,’ answered Wemmick,}}**
>> **{{very drily. ‘But he is accused of it. So might you or I be.}}**
>> **{{Either of us might be accused of it, you know.’}}**
>> **{{@@    @@‘Only neither of us is,’ I remarked.}}**
>> **{{@@    @@‘Yah!’ said Wemmick, touching me on the breast with}}**
>> **{{his forefinger; ‘you’re a deep one, Mr. Pip! Would you like to }}**
>> **{{have a look at Newgate? Have you time to spare?’}}**
>> **{{@@    @@I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as}}**
>> **{{a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent}}**
>> **{{desire to keep my eye on the coach-office. Muttering that I }}**
>> **{{would make the inquiry whether I had time to walk with him, I }}**
>> **{{went into the office, and ascertained from the clerk with the }}**
>> **{{nicest precision and much to the trying of his temper, the }}**
>> **{{earliest moment at which the coach could be expected - which I }}**
>> **{{knew beforehand, quite as well as he. I then rejoined Mr. }}**
>> **{{Wemmick, and affecting to consult my watch and to be surprised }}**
>> **{{by the information I had received, accepted his offer.}}**
>> **{{@@    @@We were at Newgate in a few minutes, and we passed}}**
>> **{{through the lodge where three smartly dressed corpses were hung}}**
>> **{{hung up on the bare walls, their attire dark and unusual. }}**
>> **{{Though shocked by the barbarity of the sight, Mr. Wemmick }}**
>> **{{shushed me and urged me forward, silencing my confusion with a }}**
>> **{{gesture to his lips. Now, at that time, jails were much }}**
>> **{{neglected, and the period of exaggerated reaction consequent }}**
>> **{{on all public wrong-doing - and which is always its heaviest }}**
>> [[>]]
>> **{{461}}**[[/>]]
> ----
> **NOTE:** Of the three recovered corpses, only one could be positively identified: Vaughn L. Kaminski, an accountant with known ties to Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski[[footnote]]AKA Hymie Weiss; a notorious mob boss active in Chicago during the 1920s.[[/footnote]]. An autopsy concluded that all three corpses died as a result of pulmonary aspiration.
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[[collapsible show="► ACCESS SCP:/3138/recovery/297.log" hide="▼ Close File"]]
> = **RECOVERY LOG**
> ----
> **DISCOVERY DATE:** 06/11/1957
> **SUBJECT:** A 1925 edition of //The Great Gatsby//, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
> ----
>> **{{through the amorphous trees.}}**
>> 
>> **{{The chauffeur — he was one of Wolfsheim’s }}**
>> **{{proteges — heard the shots — afterward he could }}**
>> **{{only say that he hadn’t thought anything much }}**
>> **{{about them. I drove from the station directly to }}**
>> **{{Gatsby’s house and my rushing anxiously up the }}**
>> **{{front steps was the first thing that alarmed any }}**
>> **{{one. But they knew then, I firmly believe. With }}**
>> **{{scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, }}**
>> **{{butler, gardener, and I, hurried down to the pool.}}**
>> 
>> **{{There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of }}**
>> **{{the water as the fresh flow from one end urged }}**
>> **{{its way toward the drain at the other with little }}**
>> **{{ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the }}**
>> **{{laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A }}**
>> **{{small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the }}**
>> **{{surface was enough to disturb its accidental course }}**
>> **{{with its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster }}**
>> **{{of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg }}**
>> **{{of compass, a thin red circle in the water.}}**
>> 
>> **{{It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house }}**
>> **{{that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off }}**
>> **{{in the grass — and alongside it, seven more. The }}**
>> **{{holocaust was complete.}}**
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> = **{{187}}**
> ----
> **NOTE:** Of the six recovered corpses, only four could be positively identified. All were known associates of Alphonse Gabriel Capone[[footnote]]AKA 'Scarface'; a notorious mob boss active in Chicago during the 1920s, as well as the co-founder and leader of the Chicago Outfit.[[/footnote]]. An autopsy concluded that all six corpses died as a result of pulmonary aspiration.
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[[collapsible show="► ACCESS SCP:/3138/recovery/681.log" hide="▼ Close File"]]
> = **RECOVERY LOG**
> ----
> **DISCOVERY DATE:** 21/02/1982
> **SUBJECT:** A 1912 edition of //Collected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe//.
> ----
>> = //**{{Collected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe}}**//
>> **{{And this was the reason that, long ago,}}**
>> **{{@@   @@In this kingdom by the sea,}}**
>> **{{A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling}}**
>> **{{@@   @@My beautiful Annabel Lee;}}**
>> **{{So that her highborn kinsmen came}}**
>> **{{@@   @@And bore her away from me,}}**
>> **{{To shut her up in a sepulchre}}**
>> **{{@@   @@With the corpse of Beverly Queen.}}**
>> 
>> **{{The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Went envying her and me—}}**
>> **{{Yes! — that was the reason (as all men know,}}**
>> **{{@@   @@In this kingdom by the sea)}}**
>> **{{That the wind came out of the cloud by night,}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. }}**
>> 
>> **{{But our love it was stronger by far than the love}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Of those who were older than we—}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Of many far wiser than we—}}**
>> **{{And neither the angels in Heaven above}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Nor the demons down under the sea}}**
>> **{{Can ever dissever my soul from the soul}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; }}**
>> 
>> **{{For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;}}**
>> **{{And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;}}**
>> **{{And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side}}**
>> **{{@@   @@Of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride,}}**
>> **{{@@   @@In her sepulchre there by the sea—}}**
>> **{{@@   @@With the corpse of Beverly Queen.}}**
>> [[>]]
>> **{{95}}**[[/>]]
> ----
> **NOTE:** Although the recovered corpse could not be conclusively identified, it was determined to be that of an adolescent female. In 1932, a missing person report was filed with the Chicago Police Department for Beverly Queen -- a 17 year old female living with Richard Chappell[[footnote]]A co-founder of the [[[chicago-spirit|Chicago Spirit]]], an anomalous criminal organization active in Chicago during the 1920s.[[/footnote]]. An autopsy concluded that the corpse died of pulmonary aspiration.
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> **Filename:** metaphor.jpg
> **Name:** Borremose Man
> **Author:** Unknown
> **License:** Public Domain
> **Source Link:** [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borremose_Man.jpg Wikimedia Commons]
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