"Ancient" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Armand Rosamilia. It forms the first part of his Keyport Cthulhu story cycle.
Synopsis[]
When a young man and his wife visit Keyport, New Jersey to settle his grandfather's affairs, they discover a town full of odd citizens with a dark secret and a decrepit old house with something living in one of its locked rooms. As night falls, the wife is whisked off by the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and rowed out to the bay to be sacrificed to a creature which sleeps beneath the waves.
Characters[]
- Harrison Marsh, a young man with a dark genetic history.
- Nicole Marsh, Harrison's wife.
- Sylvia Smoltz, Keyport's town realtor.
- Jeb Marsh, Harrison's grandfather, now almost completely devolved.
Publication History[]
"Ancient"was first published in the chapbook Ancient: A Keyport Cthulhu Tale in 2012, and was later included in the collection Keyport Cthulhu in November 2013. Both were released by Rimfyre Books through Amazon's digital Kindle platform.