The Randy Oswald Story

"The Randy Oswald Story" is a Lovecraftian short story by author and artist Dean Wirth. The third in a series begun with "The Dewey Mine Attack", it was published in Vol 5, Issue 3 of the Lovecraftiana zine in October 2020.
==Synopsis==
1945, Los Angeles: investigative reporter Randy Oswald stumbles across the story of the Dewey Mine massacre of 1885, before tracking down and interviewing its sole survivor, Bryan Katz, now released from an asylum and living a quiet life. 
After hearing Katz's story, he is hired by a woman named Mina Luddox - whose husband was killed by creatures identical to those described by Katz - to look into similar incidents; his investigations lead him to visit the Dewey Mine himself. There, he witnesses a man being dragged into the black mouth of the shaft, leaving behind only the logbook of the USS Constitution, dated 1806; the book recounts an attack by "star-demons" similar in description to those encountered by Katz.
He eventually comes to the realisation that the Dewey Mine incident is most definitely not an isolated one, and that these creatures have been preying on other sentient species for unknown ages. The truth of this appears to drive him to depression and the story ends with a newspaper article on his suicide.
==Characters==
*Randy Oswald, a journalist specialising in crime and the paranormal.
*Bryan Katz, a former miner and only survivor of an attack by malicious alien beings.
*Mina Luddox, a woman whose husband-to-be was killed by the star-creatures aboard the USS Connecticut shortly after the end of WWI.
Category:Dean Wirth works
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works