Objects from the Gilman-Waite Collection

"Objects from the Gilman-Waite Collection" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author and editor Ann K. Schwader, first published in her collection Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (2003, Lindisfarne Press) Title: "Objects from the Gilman-Waite Collection" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
A visit to an unusual museum exhibit - one which displays, amongst other things, bizarre golden jewellery with distinctly aquatic motifs - triggers memories of a heinous crime committed by the man during his university days. As the time in the exhibition drags on, his sanity becomes increasingly frayed, and he begins to believe that the attendant is in fact the woman he violated so many years ago, come back to exact the price for his foul deed…
==Behind the Mythos==
The artefacts on display in the museum are clearly intended to be pieces created by the Deep Ones, as described in H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, while the woman's description closely matches most common depictions of the Innsmouth Look. Additionally, the names Gilman and Waite are often associated with the scions of Innsmouth in Lovecraft's fiction.
==Publication History == 
*Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (2003, Lindisfarne Press)
*Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu's Creatures (2007, Rainfall Books)
*The Book of Cthulhu II (2012, 2022, Night Shade Books)
==References==
Category:Ann K. Schwader works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works