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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. This subject contains information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos, and not based on H.P. Lovecraft's works directly. "I Want to Break Free" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Edward Morris.

Synopsis[]

A Mercy Hill patient describes how, as a child, he and his friends travelled to Lakeside Terrace where they discovered and read all eleven volumes of the occult text the Revelations of Gla'aki, an act which was directly responsible for his incarceration.

Characters[]

  • The Unnamed Narrator, a psychiatric patient at the Severn Valley's Mercy Hill hospital.

Publication History[]

"I Want to Break Free" was published in the thematic anthology The Children of Gla'aki by Dark Regions Press in 2017.

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