"Your fury thrills me, fills me with amusement and desire. Come now, priest, rake my face with your nails, gouge and tear my skin. If you hate me as you say, then take out my eyes, and rip my hair! Burn them on your fire. Show me you have passion, priest. Show me you feel fear. I can read your every anxiety, for you are no warrior to fight me. Even now your stuttering spirit edges to the throne of my Master."
- —Extract from the poem "The Horned Man," from the Liber Chaotica.[1a]
The Horned Man is a mysterious Chaos entity said to prey on those who find themselves in a state of spiritual fragility by invading their dreams, and somehow feeding on their growing mental anguish.
The most interesting reference to the Horned Man is in an anonymous Tilean writer's little known collection of tales: The Dream Reaper and other Stories. The collection's stories describe a tall man with a staff and antlers springing out of his head. In the tale he enters the dreams of young children, and tries to convince them to commit bad deeds upon waking.[1a]