The Twilight People

"The Twilight People" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by author Christopher Pate. It was published in Vol 8, Issue 2 of the Gavin Chappell-edited zine Lovecraftiana in July 2023.
==Synopsis==
Zofia, a woman working the graveyard shift at a care home in America's Great Basin, is on duty the night a comet is due to approach the Earth. As the celestial traveller's presence begins to affect the atmosphere, the sky changes colour and the stars realign themselves. While this happens, several of the care home's residents reveal their true nature as followers of the Old Ones and celebrate their return, murdering Zofia as an offering to their resurrected gods.
==Mythos Connections==
*A fractured news report heard over the radio states that an "impact southern Pacific… reports… massive island rising… communications lost…"; this, combined with an earlier mention of R'lyeh suggests that Cthulhu and his sub-aquatic resting place have finally risen from beneath the waves.
*A reminiscence by one of the residents of his childhood in a small fishing village on the coast of Massachusetts recalls the government raid on Innsmouth in 1927/28, with the townsfolk herded into pens and slaughtered, and warships deployed to the coastline.
==Trivia==
*The story's title refers to both an unkind name for the elderly care home residents used by some of the staff, as well as to the human race which, now that "the stars are finally right", is entering into the twilight of its existence.
Category:Christopher Pate works
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