The Secret of the Sahara

"The Secret of the Sahara" is a Lovecraftian short story by the late American author Richard A. Lupoff. It was first published in The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures by Carroll & Graf in 2005.
==Synopsis==
In an alternative steampunk reality, the leaders in their fields from five different countries investigate the recent discovery of pre-human ruins, located beneath the surface of the man-made Sahara Sea. In the tunnels beneath the seabed, they awaken a giant alien creature which seems intent on devouring them, but the intervention of the ship's cat gives the group a brief reprieve, allowing them to kill it. With the being's dying breaths, it tells them that it’s mother and father will soon be coming for it…
==Publication History==
Since its debut in 2005, "Secrets of the Sahara" has also appeared in the collections of Lupoff's own works Terrors (2008) and The Doom That Came to Dunwich (2017).
==Trivia==
* The entities detected frozen in time during the expedition's preliminary scans could be interpreted as Elder Things and Cthulhi, two species stated to have engaged in a war on Earth in distant prehistory in At the Mountains of Madness. However, the descriptions are sufficiently vague to make this conclusion uncertain.
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