The Dark Boatman

The Dark Boatman is a short story by British author John Glasby.
==Synopsis==
A man named Dexter inherits his eccentric uncle's sprawling Cornwall mansion, and receives a mysterious letter from him a few days later. Along with a friend, Michael Ambrose, Dexter travels to his new property and uncovers a terrible family secret stretching back thousands of years.
==Characters==
*Dexter (first name unknown), the last of his lineage, Dexter is a thirty-something man presumably from somewhere in either England or Wales.
*'Michael Ambrose, a colleague of Dexter's, and something of a specialist in objects of antiquity. Ambrose is killed when he inadvertently assumes Dexter's place in his family's destiny.
*Andrew Forsythe, partner in the law firm Poulton and Forsythe and the Dexter family solicitor.
*Charon, the mythical boatman to the underworld.
==Behind the Mythos==
The Dark Boatman was first published in Spectral Tales No. 2 in December 1989, was later included as part of Glasby's own collection The Dark Boatman: Tales of Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos in July 2012, and was released as part of the digital collection The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack later the same year.
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:John Glasby works