Andromeda Among the Stones

"Andromeda Among the Stones" is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan, part of their Dandridge Cycle. It first appeared as a chapbook accompanying the anthology Embrace the Mutation (Subterranean Press, 2003).
==Synopsis==
The story reveals the history of the Dandridge family: how Machen Dandridge found “a hole in the world" on the California coast and built a house there; how his wife, Ellen Douglas-Winslow Dandridge, died trying to stop the demons from "squeez[ing] in through the tear"; how their son Avery Dandridge tried to close the gate, even though "the one who wields the key cannot be a man," and was spit back "twisted and insane"; and finally how their daughter Meredith Dandridge becomes the creature on the rock who holds the line against "the moment when the stars wink out one by one and the sea heaves its rotting belly at the empty, sagging sky."
==Publication History==
"Andromeda Among the Stones" was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of New Terror (Robinson/Carrol & Graf, 2004) and The Book of Cthulhu (Night Shade Books, 2011). It also appeared in Kiernan's collections To Charles Fort, with Love (Subterranean Press, 2005), Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press, 2011), Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (Centipede Press, 2018), and The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon Publications, 2019).
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:The Dandridge Cycle