John Four

"John Four" is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan that first appeared in the September 2010 issue of Sirenia Digest (#58).
== Synopsis ==
The story is set after the return of the Great Old Ones, in a Temple in the last city of humanity, where a woman dispenses solace from a pool of greater darkness.
== Behind the Mythos ==
The title is a reference to the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John, which includes the story of the Samaritan woman at the well. Jesus asks her for water, and when she fails to give him any, tells her:Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.Wikipedia, "Samaritan woman at the well."
== Publication History ==
The story was reprinted in the anthology A Mountain Walked (Centipede Press, 2014).  It later appeared in Kiernan's collection Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (Subterranean Press, 2019).
== References ==
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works