Crouch End

"Crouch End" is a short story by popular horror writer Stephen King.
==Synopsis==
Young couple Lonnie and Doris Freeman are on their way to a dinner party when they find themselves lost in the London suburb of Crouch End, a place where the barriers between dimensions has been rubbed thin. As they make their way through an increasingly-bizarre world, Lonnie is taken by a nightmarish creature, while Doris barely manages to escape with her life.
==Characters==
*Leonard "Lonnie" Freeman, a young lawyer.
*Doris Freeman, Lonnie's wife.
*PC Robert Farnham, an officer at the Crouch End police station.
*PC Ted Vetter, a veteran officer assigned to the station.
==Publication History==
First published by Arkham House in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1980, "Crouch End" was later included in a slightly edited version in King's own collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes in 1993.
==Mythos Connections==
*Several Mythos entities are made reference to, including Cthulhu Kryon (Cthulhu), Yogsoggoth (Yog-Sothoth) and Nrtesn Nyarlahotep (Nyarlathotep). Lonnie is heavily implied to have been taken by The Goat with a Thousand Young (Shub-Niggurath).
*Cthulhu's resting place of R'yeleh (R'lyeh) is mentioned.
*A sign on a decaying warehouse reads Alhazred, a clear reference to Abdul Alhazred, the crazed author of the Necronomicon.
==Adaptations==
*An audiobook version of Nightmares & Dreamscapes was released with a reading of "Crouch End" by actor Tim Curry.
*The story was adapted into an episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King by television network TNT.
==Trivia==
*H. P. Lovecraft himself is mentioned by PC Vetter when he is explaining the nature of dimensions to Farnham.
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Stephen King works