Eeny Meeny Miney Mi-Go

"Eeny Meeny Miney Mi-Go" is a short hardboiled/Cthulhu Mythos story by British author William Meikle. Forming part of his Midnight Eye Files series, it was first published in the chapbook collection of his own works The Keeper of the Gate in August 2019.
==Synopsis==
Hard-drinking Glaswegian private eye Derek Adams is engaged by wealthy astronomer Professor Penderton to locate his missing son Andrew, who has disappeared in the lead-up to some unspecified event. Adams easily locates the man, and just in time, as he is about to be whisked away by a bizarre creature whose true form is concealed beneath a long coat and wide-brimmed hat. Succeeding in chasing the monster off, he takes Andrew to a secure location to hear his story.
Tucked away in the cellar of a local bar, Andrew tells Derek of how his father has become involved in a cult dedicated to insectile creatures from the planet Yuggoth named the Mi-Go. He explains that the following night, the aliens intent to descend upon Earth and take the cult members away to a scientific utopia, and that he wants no part of the insanity. Unluckily for Andrew, however, one of the Mi-Go spirits him away before Adams can do anything to stop it.
Resolving to rescue the poor lad, Adams travels to Professor Penderton's mansion, where he is captured and knocked unconscious by the cult, awakening just in time to witness the final stages of the ceremony. He and Andrew just barely manage to escape, killing the attendant Mi-Go and destroying the brains of the cultists, which have by now been encased in their cylinders.
==Publication History==
*The Keeper of the Gate (2019)
*The Midnight Eye Files (2019)
Category:William Meikle works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works