The Horror in the Stable

"The Horror in the Stable" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author R. C. Mulhare. It was published in the Jesse Dedman/William C. Marchese-edited festive anthology Cthulhu Christmas Special and Other Lovecraftian Yuletide Tales in November 2017.
==Synopsis==
On Christmas Eve, Dr. Herbert West, now hiding his experiments in plain sight, is called to attend two badly-injured small children, Molly and Mickey Dolan, who have been struck by an automobile and subsequently crawled off to a remote barn to nurse their injuries. Deducing that the boy has little chance of survival, but the girl may be helped, he nevertheless injects them both with his reagent under the guise of administering painkillers. Micky immediately runs off into the woods, while Molly remains comatose.
West then transports Molly to his surgery where he may keep an eye on her progress. Later that night, when the doctor is asleep, he is awoken by the sound of the window breaking and investigates, only to find the girl vanished into the cold, dark night. A few days pass before West, deciding to embark on an evening constitutional, sets foot outside his front door, only to be confronted by a small figure covered in blood, and holding the partially-eaten remains of a little girl's leg…
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