Pazuzu's Children

"Pazuzu's Children" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Jeffrey Thomas. It was first published in the Robert M. Price-edited zine Cthulhu Codex by Necronomicon Press in April 1997.
==Synopsis==
A downed American pilot during the Gulf War's Operation Desert Storm is captured by the group he was sent to attack: a mysterious cult living in caverns beneath the sands. He soon discovers that they are in service to an ancient entity - whose name they give as Pazuzu, but who he also hears being referred to as "Cth-" - and that they are protecting one of its "children", the severed tentacle of which he briefly glimpses.
When the Americans send a second strike to finish the job, the pilot's captors try to force him into persuading them to turn back; realising the danger these madmen and their pet monster present to the world, he takes the microphone and screams for his comrades to attack, whatever the cost.
==Publication History==
Since its first appearance, "Pazuzu's Children" has also been included in the collections Unholy Dimensions (2005), Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror (2006), and Geschichten aus dem Cthulhu-Mythos (2012, German-language translation).
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