Contributed by
Dustin Wright on Wednesday April 25, 2007 01:17PM
Modern Day Call of Cthulhu Fiction by David
Conyers and John Sunseri.
THE SPIRALING WORM
CHA6040
ISBN 156882-212-X
MSRP $15.95
THE SPIRALING WORM
Man vs. the Cthulhu Mythos
"“Dixon grabbed his head in agony as the vision flooded his mind—the whirling chaotic swirl that
gibbered and howled just beyond the gateway: stars, planets and constellations spinning in
insanely rapid combinations, light and darkness attacking each other with supernova intensity,
lines of force clashing in galaxy-melting conglomerations of sound. He felt his body somehow
separate from him . . . and he fought to maintain sanity, to keep his eyes on the chaos that was
beginning to spill from the wedge between our world and the infinite worlds of
Nyarlathotep.
Figgs exulted, blood spilling down his lips and chin, flesh half-chewed spraying from his mouth
as he danced in the nuclear fire of the end of the world. In the blinding light he saw a figure
moving towards him, a black, wavering line of matter that spun in slow helices through the
endless, churning cauldron of white fire.
The Worm moved fast — vast chunks of space-time disappeared beneath its approach, atoms
screaming as they dissolved, seconds stretching into hours, chains of stars exploding before the
path of the Messenger of the Gods. Figgs knelt before it, all spells fleeing his mind, all cantrips
and catches meant to imprison the outer god forgotten in the insane joy of the Mask at the
approach of its Master.
And then the door began to render itself shut again.”
— “The Spiraling Worm” by David Conyers and John Sunseri
The Spiraling Worm offers seven stories sharing background, characters, and storyline depicting
humankind’s struggle against the Mythos.
Dustin O'Chaosium
