At the end of 2014 I became a lifetime member to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society and to celebrate I wanted to write something particularly Lovecraftian. I had always thought that the area around the home of a certain friend particularly lent itself to the New England countryside of Lovecraft's works with need only a little more emphasis or embellishment about it's isolation, so the seeds were sown for this story. I've created Britannic University as the Northern Ireland equivalent of Lovecraft's Miskatonic (I'm sure you can work out which university it is based on), and Holywood Sanatorium as our equivalent to the much more famous Arkham Sanitarium. Lovecraft was keen for other authors to use elements of his work in order to expand the scope of his universe and so I have borrowed what I think are the right elements for this story to become part of the Cthulhu Mythos and yet be wholly original and a standalone in itself.
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I've entered this story into a competition on Freeditorial so they have the digital publishing rights for the next two years (unless I win, in which case it will be the next 10). You can read it if you click the link below, and I'd appreciate if you did download the story as it will give me a boost.
Many thanks,
Kyle
Freeditorial- The Music On The Lake
You can also buy the print edition on Amazon
