At the Gate of the Deeper Slumber

"At the Gate of the Deeper Slumber" is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan. A sequel to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark," it describes the fate of a Providence couple who find the Shining Trapezohedron on a Rhode Island beach and take it home with them. It first appeared in the July 2009 issue of Sirenia Digest (#41).
==Publication History==
The story was reprinted in Kiernan's collections Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart (Subterranean Press, 2012) and Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (Centipede Press, 2018).
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works