Academic Legacies

"Academic Legacies" is a novelette by C.T. Phipps in the Cthulhu Mythos genre. It was first published in Time Loopers in 2023. It is part of the Cthulhu Armageddon series.
==Synopsis==
Mercy Halsey-Mason is a student at Miskatonic University who is the student of Chester Winfield and dating Tommy Tillinghast as a research assistant. A Goth Girl, she has an interest in sorcery and the occult. Doctor Winfield is a former victim of the Yith who has made use of the Windlass app to construct a variant of the Tillinghast Device. It turns out that Doctor Winfield intends to use it to summon the Flying Polyps to attack the Yith in the distant past for revenge upon his violation. This is tied to the larger Time War being fought between the shoggoths and Yith.
==Behind the Mythos==
"Academic Legacies" is a loose sequel to "From Beyond" and "The Shadow out of Time." It is also a prequel to the Cthulhu Armageddon series, taking place before the Rising and destruction of the world.
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