"It Slumbers Beneath the Ice" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by author Troy Young. It is the second story in his Nyarlathotep Cycle.
Synopsis[]
Dr. Adele Kramer, now working for a shadowy government organisation, is sent to investigate the disappearance of a tribe of natives from within Canada's arctic circle. Joining up with local liaison Brennan and Army Ranger Ivalu, the group determines the tribe to have been historic Cthulhu worshippers, and that they have moved on to release something from beneath the ice.
Locating the iceberg sought by the tribesfolk, the group discovers that they have almost freed the entity. Although they are able to kill the surviving cultists, Brennan's mind is broken and he is killed when attacking Kramer. As the beast within the ice finally awakens, the other two are able to kill it with the explosives which they had brought for that very task.
The story concludes with Ivalu being recruited into the same organisation as Kramer.
Characters[]
- Dr. Adele Kramer, a marine biologist working for a government department whose remit is the removal of "The Other" (a catch-all term for entities of the Cthulhu Mythos) from Earth.
- Scott Brennan, a government liaison to the indigenous tribes of northern Canada.
- Pete Ivalu, a sergeant with the Canadian Army Rangers.
- Harjit Singh, senior representative of the unnamed agency.
Publication History[]
"It Slumbers Beneath the Ice" was published in the collection The Other: Encounters with the Cthulhu Mythos Book 1 in 2020.
Trivia[]
- The name of the Coast Guard ship called in to assist the team is the CCGS Howard Phillips, and it was captained by a man named Armitage.
- The entity frozen in the ice was heavily implied to have been a Cthulhi.
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