The Mindhouse

"The Mindhouse" is a short story by American author Christine Morgan. It could be perceived as a metaphor for humanity's wilful blindness to the problems of nuclear waste, pollution, and many other issues.
==Synopsis==
In a letter to her estranged sister, a woman incarcerated in a mental health facility tells how she has been cured of her acute schizophrenia by an unconventional doctor using a bizarre room known as the Mindhouse. Although the writer of the letter knows that the insanity which is being siphoned away by the treatments will one day be used to spell the end of humanity, she delights in the good it has done for the patients who participate in the doctor's procedures.
==Characters==
*The Unnamed Narrator, a woman who has been incarcerated since a young age at Evergate, a mental health institution situated on a very special site.
==Publication History==
"The Mindhouse" was published in the April Moon Books thematic anthology The Dark Rites of Cthulhu in March 2014.
==Trivia==
*The name of the doctor treating the patients, Dr. Hasturn, is a clear nod to the Great Old One Hastur from Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow. Similarly, some of the phrases involved in Hasturn's ritual, such as Cthlotha Fthagnd, are reminiscent of those used by H. P. Lovecraft and others in earlier Mythos stories.
Category:Christine Morgan works
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