The Lakeside Cottages

"The Lakeside Cottages" is a short Cthulhu Mythos/Thomas Carnacki crossover story by British author William Meikle.
==Synopsis==
Paranormal investigator Thomas Carnacki lends his assistance when two boys from Brichester University who visited Lakeside Terrace come down with a strange malady. Unable to save the first boy, Carnacki is forced to confront the inhabitant of the lake, Gla'aki, to save the second.
Despite managing to fend off the evil creature, as the second boy heads off towards the water at stories' end - carrying with him a nine-volume set of the Revelations of Gla'aki - Carnacki detects a remaining glimmer of the supernatural taint…
==Characters==
*Thomas Carnacki, a highly-intelligent occultist.
*Professor Coates, a scholar at the Severn Valley's venerable Brichester University.
*Perkins, a student
*Mrs. Dingle, landlady of a small hotel at Lakeside Terrace.
*Parkinson, another student.
*Gla'aki, a Great Old One.
==Publication History==
"The Lakeside Cottages" was first published in the thematic anthology The Children of Gla'aki in 2017, and also appeared in the collection of Meikle's Thomas Carnacki stories Carnacki: Starry Wisdom and Other Stories in 2021. Both were released by Dark Regions Press.
Category:William Meikle works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Crossovers