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.
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Catastrophic Discoveries - Alex Ness
Catastrophic Discoveries: Children of Cthulhu
by Alex Ness & Josh Brown
Copyright 2015 Alex Ness & Josh Brown
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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