The Final Door

"The Final Door" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by authors Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr.
==Synopsis==
A middle-aged man, bored with his life at home falls for the exotic femme fatale living across the hall who introduces him, through her magic, to worlds and times beyond his imagining. After encouraging his wife to drink herself to death, he spends increasing amounts of time with the woman, whose power causes him to de-age until, during a trip to the caverns beneath the Sphinx of Giza, a terrible accident occurs and the woman is killed. Although he is able to return to his own time, his ageing process drastically accelerates, and the story ends with him an old man in a nursing home.
==Characters==
*The Unnamed Narrator, a disillusioned man seeking some excitement in his life.
*Selket, an ancient Egyptian sorceress who learned her arts from Nyarlathotep.
*Annie, the narrator's wife.
==Publication History==
"The Final Door" was published in the collection The Blasphemy In The Canopic Jar & More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos in September 2016, and was later included in Horrors & Abominations: 24 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in December 2018.
==Trivia==
*One of the places visited by Selket and the narrator is the realm of Egyptica, an extra-dimensional plane of existence created by the authors for their Egyptian-oriented Mythos stories.
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