The Peddler’s Tale, or Isobel’s Revenge

"The Peddler’s Tale, or Isobel’s Revenge"  is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan that first appeared in the December 2013 issue of Sirenia Digest (#95). Set in H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, it serves as a sequel to "Pickman's Madonna."
==Synopsis ==
The story takes the form of a tale told by a peddler woman to children of Ulthar--the tale of the rivalry between the incestuous albino twins Isaac and Isobel Snow, who became co-rulers of the Lower Dreamlands before they had a falling out. The peddler tells of how Isobel escapes her brother's betrayal with the help of a ghoul named Sorrow and Richard Upton Pickman--and how the twins' daughter Elspeth grows up to avenge her mother by overthrowing her father.
== Publication History ==
The story was republished in The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu (Prime Books, 2015) and The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Dark Regions Press, 2017). It later appeared in Kiernan's collection Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (Centipede Press, 2018).
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works