The Decorative Water Feature of Nameless Dread

"The Decorative Water Feature of Nameless Dread" is a short Cthulhu Mythos parody by Australian-born author James Brogden.
== Synopsis ==
A man in middle England listens to a radio show phone-in where one of the callers has inexplicably discovered a Deep One inhabiting his garden pond and attempting to mate with his wife, who appears to have fallen for the creature.
== Publication History ==
"The Decorative Water Feature of Nameless Dread" was first published in the anthology Whispers from the Abyss by 01Publishing in November 2014. It also appeared in the collection of Brogden's own works Evocations in July 2015.
== Trivia ==
* Namechecked in the text are Father Dagon, Mother Hydra, Y'ha-nthlei, the Great Old Ones, and the Elder Gods.
* The end of the story mentions that the listener had been stung by a triffid seedling, a species of carnivorous plant created by John Wyndham for his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids.
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