A Creak in the Floor

"A Creak in the Floor" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by Providence, Rhode Island author Victoria Dalpe, published in the Matthew Carpenter-edited anthology Pickman's Gallery by Ulthar Press in 2018.
==Synopsis==
When Charlie, a young man from out of town, is invited by his old friend Pete to come stay with him for a while, he finds the home an enormous warehouse-like slum inhabited by dozens of colourful characters, and his friend missing.
Throughout a series of conversations with the residents, Charlie realises that the majority consensus between them is that Pete and his girlfriend had uncovered a nest of ghouls living beneath the streets and were killed by them. Unnerved by this story, he nevertheless follows one of the tenants to the expansive basement when she tells him she knows where Pete is. As shapes begin to stir through a hole in the basement wall, she explains that the stories are in fact true, and that Charlie himself now poses a problem to the creatures he has seen…
== Characters ==
* Charlie, a young man looking for a new start in a new town.
* Dally, a resident who appears to function as something of a superintendent for the building.
* Bernadette, a resident heavily implied to be a ghoul herself.
* Mal, another resident who claims to have been attacked by the creatures some years previously.
Category:Victoria Dalpe works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works