Out of the Black

"Out of the Black" is a Lovecraftian short story by British author William Meikle. It was first published in the anthology Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous by Angelic Knight Press in August 2012.
==Synopsis==
An explorer searching for life-giving ores on a dying Earth discovers a seemingly-derelict habitation of other humans which his instruments indicate hold a cache of the material. However, when he enters the complex, he finds humans devolved into a feral state, their minds shattered by the star-dotted blackness of the infinite sky.
Returning to his own warren, he deletes the coordinates of the site, begging his friends not to go in search of that cursed place, before realising that the madness which had infected the others has also taken root in his own mind…
==Publication History==
*Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous (2012)
*Green Grow the Rashes and Other Stories (2015, 2019)
*The Keeper of the Gate (2019)
Category:William Meikle works
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works