Azathoth Awakening

"Azathoth Awakening" is a short Mythos story by American author Ran Cartwright writing as R. S. Cartwright.
==Synopsis==
A woman's dream awakens the sleeping Azathoth, summoning it into our universe. As it comes to claim its prize, all of existence devolves into madness and chaos from its mere presence. Finally arriving at Sol, it takes the woman and consumes her before destroying all of creation. It then retreats back into slumber, while dreaming a dream of a new universe.
==Characters==
*Joyce, an woman who, in her madness, is destined to become sustenance for Azathoth.
*Azathoth, the Daemon-Sultan, an Outer God.
==Publication History==
"Azathoth Awakening" was first published in Cthulhu Cultus #17 in 2000. It was later reprinted in a handful of periodicals before being included in A. J. French's anthology The Shadow of the Unknown in August 2011. Ran Cartwright then included it in his own collection, Of Gods & Aliens, in October 2011.
Category:Ran Cartwright works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works