Broadsword

"Broadsword" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by prolific British author William Meikle.
==Synopsis==
“Stop this war. Or you will die.” With these words and the destruction of Turin, the alien Mi-Go launch a bid for domination of the Earth in 1940. In response, Berlin and London each send small teams of highly-trained men into the Andes to investigate the suspected site of the aliens' deadly weapon and neutralise it. Although the German team is captured by the Mi-Go, the British soldiers are successful, and call in a bombing raid which destroys the alien base.
==Characters==
*Sandy, the narrator and British team member.
*Captain Dave Collins, leader of the British expedition.
==Publication History==
"Broadsword" was first published in the thematic anthology World War Cthulhu in 2014, and later appeared in the collection of Meikle's own work Into the Black: Tales of Lovecraftian Terror in 2019.
==Trivia==
*The name of the mountain on which the Mi-Go base is located, the Trollenburg, is possibly a nod to the 1958 sci-fi horror B-movie The Trollenburg Terror, which features a Lovecraftian creature on a mountain of the same name.
Category:William Meikle works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works