A Christmas Carnage

"A Christmas Carnage" is a short story by author James S. Dorr, published in the Jesse Dedman and William C. Marchese collection Cthulhu Christmas Special and Other Lovecraftian Yuletide Tales in November 2017. It is loosely connected to the Cthulhu Mythos by the narrator's offhand comment of being a former Miskatonic University student.
==Synopsis==
A mentally-unstable man returns to his home at Christmas time to find the ghost of his great aunt Carol - a woman whom he has harboured a deep-seated sexual desire for ever since seeing an ancient pornographic Daguerrotype of her during childhood - awaiting him. She tells him that if they are to be together, then he must claim a toll in blood, one which will cost many, many lives. Taking up his chainsaw, the man embarks on a murderous spree, killing everyone in his building before moving on to other houses in the street.
When he returns to his rooms, Carol, now seemingly entirely corporeal, makes good on her promise, and the two spend a night of carnal bliss together.
When the police, investigating the brutal slayings which the man has perpetrated, break down his door the following morning, they find the man in bed, covered in blood, and embracing the corpse of a woman dead for over a century.
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