Return to the Mountains of Madness

"Return to the Mountains of Madness" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Ran Cartwright.
==Synopsis==
A trio of ghost hunters investigating a crypt in the side of an Ohio mountain uncover a portal which through time and space leading to the Elder Thing city described in At the Mountains of Madness. 
There, they discover that Elder Things have been enslaved by the few remaining Shoggoths, who are conducting medical procedures on captured humans. These procedures are designed to make humans look more like Elder Things, so that they can offer them as sacrifice to the Shoggoths in their own place. Unfortunately for the ghost hunters, the Shoggoths seem to have developed a fairly high degree of intelligence, and none of them survive the encounter.
== Characters==
*Bernie Howe, a technical genius.
*Karl Mayburg, the team leader.
*Jenni Osborne, a psychic sensitive.
*Rick Forney, the local who alerts the ghost hunters to the presence of the crypt.
==Publication History==
"Return to the Mountains of Madness" was first published in the second issue of fanzine E'ch Pi El in February 2007, and also appeared in the collection of Cartwright's own work Of Gods & Aliens in October 2011.
Category:Ran Cartwright works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works