Archons (story)

"Archons" is a short story by Cody Goodfellow that first appeared in Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales (Hippocampus Press, 2016). It has also been translated for the German-language collection Tiefenrausch (Festa, 2022).
==Overview==
Goodfellow uses the Iraq War as the setting for a Cthulhu Mythos story that examines the roots of human violence. The plot involves a secret war within the war, between a for-profit private military operation whose roots go back to the Crusades and a sect of snake worshippers who are "older than the dinosaurs." The story's protagonist, a combat-hardened Marine, is recruited by the former and gradually comes to identify with the latter.
Category:Cody Goodfellow works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works