The Haunter of the Graveyard

"The Haunter of the Graveyard" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by the late American author and Lovecraft correspondent J. Vernon Shea.
== Synopsis ==
Elmer Harrod, a television presenter and scriptwriter, develops a morbid fascination with the sprawling graveyard which lies next to his home. His obsession first begins to manifest when he directs short films in the cemetery, later noticing aberrations which might be otherworldly creatures appearing in the final cuts.
As he slowly spends more and more of his time there, he takes to reading and, eventually, sleeping atop the graves. During these sessions, he starts to dream of a cult to the Great Old One Cthulhu and his sorcerous disciples whose activities are something of a historical scandal.
After a time Harrod disappears, his badly decomposed and partially eaten remains eventually being discovered in the area of the cemetery which he had come to think of as the Witches' Hollow.
== Characters ==
* Elmer Harrod, a curious man in the television industry.
== Publication History ==
"The Haunter of the Graveyard" was first published in the August Derleth-edited anthology Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1969. It has since been reprinted several times, and has also been translated into French.
== Trivia ==
* Harrod was stated to have cast students from Miskatonic University in his short films, and remembers making the acquaintance of one Randolph Carter in his early years.
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