A Thousand Young

"A Thousand Young" is a short story by American author and Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price.
==Synopsis==
A man who believes that only sexual experience can grant him spiritual fulfilment succeeds in tracking down a group which professes to believe the same, and is willing to teach him their ways. After completing a series of increasingly-depraved initiation rites, he is finally allowed to participate in one of their orgiastic rituals. However, when the lights are turned on, he finds that he has been tricked into engaging in congress with the Outer God Shub-Niggurath.
==Characters==
*The Unnamed Narrator, a man on a quest to find inner completeness.
*Marilyn, the narrator's girlfriend.
*The Priest, leader of a cult called the Libertines.
*Shub-Niggurath, an Outer God.
==Publication History==
*Eldritch Tales #18 (January 1989)
*The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young (July 1994)
*The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft (February 1995)
*Blasphemies & Revelations (November 2008)
Category:Robert M. Price works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works