Moonlit Mysteries: Nyarlathotep

Prompt:  A fantasy illustration depicting a tall, lean man of dead black coloration, wholly devoid of either hair or beard, and wearing as his only garment a shapeless robe of some heavy black fabric. His feet were indistinguishable because of the table and bench, but he must have been shod, since there was a clicking whenever he changed position. The man did not speak, and bore no trace of expression on his small, regular features. He merely pointed to a book of prodigious size which lay open on the table... And at the last from inner Egypt came the strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed. That wild beasts followed him and licked his hands. Soon from the sea a noxious birth began. Forgotten lands with weedy spires of gold. The ground was cleft, and mad auroras rolled down on the quaking citadels of man. Then, crushing what he chanced to mould in play, the idiot Chaos blew Earth's dust away. The Pharaoh Nephren-Ka built around it a temple with a windowless crypt, and did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records. Then it slept in the ruins of that evil fane which the priests and the new Pharaoh destroyed, till the delver’s spade once more brought it forth to curse mankind. Hard and soft lines, deep unrestrained coloration, sharp contrast, dynamic lighting, shock horror, baroque painting.