De Marigny's Clock (Ran Cartwright)

"De Marigny's Clock" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Ran Cartwright.
==Synopsis==
Told in a series of diary entries, the story covers the last few days of missing author Joseph Ward who, seeking inspiration for his writing, has taken up residence in the abandoned Chateau de Marigny. Over the course of several nights, he gradually begins to detect the return of an ancient clock - in actuality a gate between worlds - which begins to drive him insane with fear. In Ward's final entry, he writes that he intends to destroy the clock.
==Characters==
*Joseph Ward, a writer seeking an atmospheric location to inspire his work.
==Publication History==
*Dark Legacy #4 (1993)
*Nightscapes #13 (2000)
*Thirteen Stories #12 (2003)
*Of Gods & Aliens (2011)
==Trivia==
*The story is spun off from H. P. Lovecraft's and E. Hoffman Price's short story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key".
*Although sharing de Marigny's clock as a plot device with the Titus Crow series, Cartwright presents it as a much more sinister object, likely the cause of Ward's doom, rather than the technological artefact portrayed in Brian Lumley's work.
Category:Ran Cartwright works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works