The Creeping Kelp

The Creeping Kelp is a Cthulhu Mythos novella by British author William Meikle. Although a fairly straightforward creature-feature, it is also intended as a cautionary tale on mankind's mistreatment of Mother Nature.
==Synopsis==
An experiment during the Second World War involving recovered Shoggoth DNA results in disaster and the results are destroyed. However, a U-Boat attack leaves a small sample extant beneath the waves of the North Atlantic, and the creature is released in the modern day.
Quickly reproducing, the Shoggoths overrun a boat full of environmentalists and begin construction of their own city, while simultaneously rampaging up and down the coast of England.
Fortunately, two of the surviving environmentalists come up with a plan to destroy the Shoggoth's guiding intelligence, and with their core destroyed the colony instantly devolves into mindlessness, ending their threat.
==Characters==
*Dave Noble, a researcher studying the effects of plastic pollution in the North Atlantic.
*Suzie Jukes, a biologist aboard the same ship, the Earth Rescue.
==Publication History==
The Creeping Kelp was published by Dark Regions Press in 2011, 2016 and 2018. It also received an ebook release in 2013. It runs to a total of 157 pages and features cover art by Wayne Miller.
==Trivia==
*A segment of the book which describes the Spanish Inquisition's encounter with a Shoggoth was taken in its entirety and published as "Inquisitor" in 2011. A smaller part of this same section was also reused in the non-Mythos Thomas Carnacki story "Carnacki: Captain Gault's Nemesis" in 2013.
*One part of the story involving military records from the Second World War was later mostly rewritten by Meikle - though with the same characters - and published as "The Terror That Came to Dounreay" in 2015.
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:William Meikle works
Category:Novels