"Black Hill" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by author Orrin Grey, first published in the anthology Historical Lovecraft (2011, Innsmouth Free Press) [1].
Synopsis[]
A successful American oilman purchases a plot of land believed by the indigenous people to be the home of something dark and sinister. Despite what he tells his workforce - that he expects to quickly strike a rich deposit of black gold - he shares the belief of the native people, and is determined to confront whatever lurks beneath the surface. Unfortunately for the man, the colossal entity tears open a rip in the bedrock, swallowing him whole before sealing itself back up in its subterranean lair.
Mythos Connections[]
In his earlier life, the oilman claims to have met a deranged preacher who attempted to destroy one of his drilling operations; after killing the preacher, he found an ancient book in the man's possession. One of the lines in the book read in part "That is not dead which can eternal lie…", a famous quote of H. P. Lovecraft's often used when referring to creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Publication History [1][]
- Historical Lovecraft (2011, Innsmouth Free Press)
- Pseudopod (2011, Escape Artists, Inc., audio adaptation)
- The Book of Cthulhu II (2012, 2022, Night Shade Books)
- Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings (2017, Strix Publishing)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Title: "Black Hill" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database