The Devil's Hop Yard

"The Devil's Hop Yard" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by the late American author Richard A. Lupoff. It was first published in Chrysalis, Volume 2 in August 1978.
==Synopsis==
1928, Dunwich: a man named Sawyer and two members of the decayed branch of the Whateley family conspire to conduct a ritual similar to that planned by Wilbur Whateley ten years previously. Using the elder Whateley's daughter as a vessel for the offspring, they birth an abnormal and malevolent girl-child.
Once the girl comes of age, the three conduct a ritual atop the blasted hill known as "the Devil's Hop Yard". A handful of townsfolk and a local constable attempt to stop the process, but the girl is lifted off into the ether, presumably to join her "father" Yog-Sothoth, to whom the rite was dedicated.
==Publication History==
*Chrysalis, Volume 2 (1978)
*Nick Adams letzter Aufstieg (1981)
*The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait (1995)
*Claremont Tales II (2002)
*Terrors (2005)
*The Doom That Came to Dunwich (2017)
Category:Richard A. Lupoff works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Dunwich