Corpse Candles

"Corpse Candles" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Jeffrey Thomas. It was first published in the Hallowmas 1998 edition of the Cthulhu Codex fanzine.
==Synopsis==
Detective Grange is given a glimpse into the world of the occult when he is called to attend an incident where an elderly man apparently self-combusted, although he survived the event. What he uncovers is a decades-long feud between two brothers, each of whom worship a seperate deity: one a being named only as N, the other likely Cthulhu. The story concludes with the death of both brothers, each having summoned lesser minions of their patrons to destroy the other.
==Behind the Mythos ==
Amongst the Cthulhu Mythos elements mentioned are the Spawn of C_ (a globster washed up on the Florida coastline) and Cthugha (stated to have been responsible for the Great Chicago Fire and the American Midwest fires of 1871).
One of the specimens encountered by Detective Grange was labelled as having been sent by one S. Sargent. This is likely a nod to Stanley C. Sargent, a noted Mythos author contemporary to the publishing of "Corpse Candles".
==Publication History==
Since it’s first appearance in Cthulhu Codex, "Corpse Candles" has been seen in the collections Unholy Dimensions (2005) and Geschichten aus dem Cthulhu-Mythos (2012, German translation).
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