"The Epiphany of Dissolution" is a story by Ian Davey. It forms part of his Bh'Yhlun series of Cthulhu Mythos shorts.
Synopsis[]
Glyph continues her journey to Glastonbury and on the road joins up with an older couple, Helen and Aaron, who have been similarly drawn to the ancient site. On arrival they meet Lucy, who had arrived a few hours previously.
Atop the Glastonbury Tor the three women mentally meld and draw on a mysterious power embedded within the mound, but this action awakens the Outer God Shub-Niggurath. The four attempt to flee but the arrival of Stanley Pickman, and the revelation that he is in fact an avatar of Nyarlathotep, results in the death of two of them.
The two survivors manage to reach Stonehenge where their power causes a shift in reality where the world is restored to a pristine state, with one exception: the tower of Bh'Yhlun remains …
Characters[]
- Glyph, a thirteen-year-old orphan girl.
- Lucy, a pregnant woman who has witnessed the end of the world from its genesis.
- Helen, an older woman in a deteriorating mental and physical condition.
- Aaron, Helen's husband.
- Stanley Pickman, an avatar of Nyarlathotep.
Publication History[]
"The Epiphany of Dissolution" was first published in the online fanzine Nightscapes in January 1998. It later appeared in Dark Legacy in October 2000, and was also included in the anthology The Best of Dark Legacy, Volume 2 in September 2016.
The Bh'Yhlun Series
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| "Black Letter Day" (1997) • "An Incarceration in Bh'Yhlun" (1997) • "Francesci's Cult of the Necronomicon: An Interlude" (1998) • "The Epiphany of Dissolution" (1998) • "In the Shadow of Bh'Yhlun" (2012) |