The Nightmare In Delapore Tower

"The Nightmare In Delapore Tower" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. It takes a clear cue from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls".
==Synopsis==
A writer checks in to a high-rise hotel in order to finish his latest novel. While there, he discovers a dark secret on the thirteenth floor: the Delapores have been kidnapping people and eating their flesh, an act which extends their lives and allows them control over the countless rats which secretly inhabit the tower. Although the evil Lisa sends the rats to kill the writer her kindly yet mentally-deficient brother is able to turn the tables on her and save the man's life.
==Characters==
*The unnamed narrator, a man who writes novels in his spare time.
*Lisa Delapore, a centuries old scion of the Delapore family.
*Hector Delapore, Lisa's brother.
==Publication History==
"The Nightmare In Delapore Tower" was published in Horrors & Abominations: 24 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in December 2018.
==Trivia==
*Hector Delapore at one point states that he has a copy of the Necronomicon, and that if his sister found out she would use it to open a gateway and summon forth Yog-Sothoth, although it is never explained why she would wish to do this.
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