The Gateway to Carcosa

"The Gateway to Carcosa" is a short story by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr.
==Synopsis==
A man with a desire to vindicate his dead fathers belief in the existence of Carcosa travels to the Aylesbury Public Library to consult their copy of The King in Yellow, Arkham's Miskatonic University being sans a copy. The madness which results from his reading the book causes him to kill himself, whereupon the gates to Carcosa open and he is reunited with his father.
==Characters==
*Ethan/Roger Clarence, a man who feels deep guilt over his father's death.
*Graham, Clarence's father, who read The King in Yellow before killing himself.
==Publication History==
"The Gateway To Carcosa" was published in Horrors & Abominations: 24 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in December 2018.
==Trivia==
*"The Gateway to Carcosa" is prefaced by a quote from Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Repairer of Reputations".
*Although introduced with the first name Ethan, the main character is consistently referred to as Roger throughout the remainder of the story.
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