The Seed from the Stars

"The Seed from the Stars" is a Cthulhu Mythos poem by American author James Ambuehl. It consists of ten eight-line verses, and functions as something of a prequel to Ambuehl's 1996 short story "The Star-Seed".
==Synopsis==
The story describes how the narrator, hearing of the star-seed of Ei'lor which fell to Earth in the town of Laren, Minnesota, wishes to see this being for himself. Travelling to the destroyed farmhouse said to be the landing site he discovers a mummified old man, somehow still alive, who relays to him the events of that fateful day before imploring him to run. The ground shifts below the narrator, and he sees the developing seedling before running in abject terror.
The final verse gives a warning from the narrator that the Earth is in great peril from the vegetable-creature slowly growing beneath the ground.
==Publication History==
"The Seed from the Stars" was published in the E. P. Berglund-edited online zine Nightscapes in October 2006.
Category:James Ambuehl works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works