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Friday, March 30, 2018

"Behind the Mask"

by Lin Carter
originally published Crypt of Cthulhu #47, Roodmas 1987

Bryant Hoskins, a junior librarian at Miskatonic U, becomes enamored of certain books in the restricted section - y'all know what I mean....

Particularly taken with the R'lyeh Text, he steals it from the library.  He effs off to a remote cabin, where he studies it while trying to fend off increasing disturbing dreams, usually involving the Plateau of Leng.

His superior reports the theft of the book.  The cops arrive at the cabin to find Hoskins a raving lunatic.

Again, a very minor story though darker and less corny than Carter's usual.


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