Planetfall on Yuggoth

"Planetfall on Yuggoth" is a very short Cthulhu Mythos story by the late American author James Wade. It was first published in the H. P. Lovecraft tribute fanzine HPL in March 1972.
==Synopsis==
The story covers the landing of an expedition on Pluto, codenamed "Operation Yuggoth" after "the name for the planet used in pulp fiction by some obscure author of the last century", from a historical point of view. The expedition vanished, their ships destroyed, but not before one of the crewmen sent back a garbled radio message about "living fungi, like great clumsy crabs with membranous wings and squirming knots of tentacles for heads".
The entire occurrence was soon dismissed as one of the perils of space travel, with the crewman's radio transmission put down to some form of space madness, and future missions were revealed to be planned, both to Pluto and to a newly-discovered tenth planet. This latter venture was named "Operation Shaggai".
==Publication History==
*HPL (1972)
*The Hastur Cycle (1993, 1997, 2006)
*Nightscapes (1997)
*Le cycle d'Hastur (2000)
==Trivia==
*Written in 1972, Pluto was at that time still considered a planet; "Planetfall on Yuggoth" refers to it as such, although it does mention the controversy surrounding that designation. It has since been reclassified as a dwarf planet.Classification of Pluto at Wikipedia
==References==
Category:James Wade works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works