The Three Enchantments

"The Three Enchantments" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Gary Myers.
==Synopsis==
Lir, the apprentice of an elder Lhosk carpet salesman named Dlareb, is aged and sitting on the shores of the Cerenerian Sea to reminisce his times as a boy playing in the white sands and the teak wharves of the shore, loving the sight of the rose-tinted sails that often distracted him from his duties. Back then he would find an old and tarnished silver ball with three cunning glyphs that belonged to Cthulhu, but he was whacked by Dlareb with his knotted stick noting that his rug from remote Sona-Nyl was infested with roung golden spiders, returning to Lhosk to clean the spiders off the rug. He always noticed that Dlareb was peeping out on the sea horizon and acted unusual. He found him one night with the silver ball altered and he traced the least of the ball's glyphs onto the Sona-Nyl rug.
Several of Dlareb's clients would end up falling ill with discomfort while others would claim of voodoo dolls resembling the clients with bamboo splinters penetrated them. Then one morning, gulls flew away from the fitful sea and the Moon gained a peculiar aura. When the sun set behind the Tanarian Hills behind Celephaïs, where Kuranes noted its shrunken appearance but did not inquire to the priests. That night dreams were not pleasant and a shadow of a city was cast upon the land, and Lhosk would be coated in a fog where large tentacles would slither about. Dlareb had removed the voodoo dolls of his clients, and replaced them with waxen images of inhuman creatures with pins in the pattern of a five-pointed star and/or pentagon. Dlareb had went to hide the silver ball and ended up undergoing a horrific flabby transformation that scared Lir away. Then his body would be wound in the blood-stained rug and not buried. But upon trying to close up Dlareb's shop, they learned that the pins came from and they cast the dolls into the sea, as an unseen beast chuckled, which dragged the body of Dlareb into the sea with it as Lir watched.
==Publication History==
"The Three Enchantments" was published in the collections of Myers' own works The House of the Worm (1975) and The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2013).
Category:Gary Myers works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works