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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. "The Mine on Yuggoth" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by Ramsey Campbell, originally published in The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (Arkham House, 1964).

Synopsis[]

Expanding on elements from H. P. Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness, the story concerns the efforts of Edward Taylor (b. 1899), a former Brichester University student obsessed with the occult, to travel to Yuggoth to obtain the unique metal tok'l.

Publication History[]

The story was later reprinted in The Spawn of Cthulhu, edited by Lin Carter, the 1985 edition of Cold Print, and Chaosium's The Hastur Cycle.

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