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    Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu
    Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu
    Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu
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    Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu

    By Alex Ness and Josh Brown

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    Catastrophic Discoveries is not a book about great moments in science or exploration. It is a series of short stories and verse describing what happens when humanity discovers the children of Cthulhu living upon the Earth, and the curse of their existence here. Horror comes in many places, but when you are alone and find out humans are not alone upon this world, the only word that fits is catastrophe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUffda Press
    Release dateMar 19, 2015
    ISBN9781310227707
    Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu

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      Catastrophic Discoveries - Alex Ness

      Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu

      by Alex Ness & Josh Brown

      Copyright 2015 Alex Ness & Josh Brown

      Digital edition published by Uffda Press

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork herein is prohibited.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All characters and events appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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      Table of Contents

      Author’s Introduction by Alex Ness

      Boston Archeology Society

      When R’lyeh Rises From the Ocean Floor

      Terror Will Rise With It

      Frozen Horror

      A Peculiar Sort of Royalty

      Expedition to Oblivion

      Dreams of Monsters

      Living in a Nightmare

      Nothing in the Darkness

      In the Ancient Ruins

      The Arcane Deep

      Those Who Believe

      The Greater Evil

      Soon

      Afterword by Alex Ness

      Author’s Introduction by Josh Brown

      Eye of the Telescope

      The Constellation

      Solar Systems of Hell

      Outer Space,

      Inner Space

      The Ancient Future

      About the Authors

      Author’s Introduction

      My previous book, Sorrow of the Cthulhu Spawn, was presented as short verse and prose that were found, as in journal entries and small stories, rather than one linear story.

      This is similar but not the same. Each story or poem is complete and unrelated, directly at least, to the next. There are no chapters, no continued stories, but each does explore a theme of exploration, discovery, and perhaps, disaster.

      Please note, there are words used that aren’t used in the present day, but were in the past. In one case they might be considered improper if not racially or ideologically wrong. I am not suggesting that they should be used in the present era, I am simply using them in the fashion that they’d have been used. I am not apologizing, just explaining that different eras are fecund with words that become improper in later eras.

      — Alex Ness, 2015

      1.

      Boston Archeology Society

      Expedition Chile, 1903

      Launch March, 1903

      We left from Boston to Hartford, Connecticut, our embarkation site. We disembarked, in early spring, so that by the time we’d arrive at our terminal point of our destination it would be late spring. And then we’d not have to deal with icebergs or pack ice. We left for the distant location of the Cape Horn. We were going to study some finds of skeletal remains that were unusual, in size, in type, in their perfect preservation.

      The archipelago of Tierra del Fuego is well known for being difficult to traverse, with it having strong currents, strong winds, and the possibility of icebergs in the ship’s path. It isn’t as though we weren’t aware of the challenges, but the possible resulting discoveries would well make it worthwhile, should we not sink our ship.

      There are many people who placed the focus upon what this small survey team wasn’t. It wasn’t a fully manned expedition, nor was it a fully stocked scientific survey. It was five science nuts and a museum acquisitions advisor with a couple men who have some areas of science in their backgrounds but are more importantly, they were especially well armed and muscular. We were invited here, and we planned to give the find a look. At this point, that was all we could say. We all carried guns, not for a sense of security, we didn’t expect trouble, but better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

      The ship was a relatively new ship, called the Northern Wind, a former whaling vessel converted for use of just this sort of nature. It carried long boats for excursions, it had storage compartments, and a trained crew to deal with any onboard emergency. We had paid for their services above and beyond this trip, and back.

      I called a meeting of the small survey team, and the ship’s captain. We knew our jobs. What we didn’t know was what we’d find when

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