The Terror that Came to Dounreay

"The Terror that Came to Dounreay" is a short story by British-born author William Meikle.
==Synopsis==
During the Cold War, experiments at a secret military base in Scotland awakens the interest of creatures from between realities. As the tests intensify, the power which the creatures draws from them increases, and it becomes more and more able to affect our world. A hasty decision by the base commander to bomb the base and thus get annihilate the entities is undertaken, but an ancient folk song suggests that this is all that the beings need to manifest fully.
==Characters==
*Dr. Ballantine, an alcoholic biologist.
*Professor Rankin, a brilliant physicist.
*The Colonel, the officer in charge of the facility.
==Publication History==
"The Terror that Came to Dounreay" was first published in the Chaosium anthology Atomic-Age Cthulhu: Tales of Mythos Horror in the 1950s in March 2015. It was also included in the collection of Meikle's own works Home From The Sea: Tales of Lovecraftian Terror in 2017.
==Trivia==
* The story concludes with Ballantine becoming aware of the American nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean, and hints that the entities encountered are somehow connected to either Cthulhu or R'lyeh.
Category:William Meikle works
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works