Yohk the Necromancer

"Yohk the Necromancer" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Gary Myers. It first appeared in the Winter 1971 issue of The Arkham Collector.
==Synopsis==
The narrator tells that in the land of Vornai, there was a fat-bellied clerk in the Street of Frogs called Yohk, who was a sorcerer of no little accomplishment that arrived from the mists and escorted by cautious cotters. When people mysteriously started vanishing, he was quickly blamed for it. But he was met by three men who came from the House of the Worm crying about the end of the world upon the house’s caretaker’s demise. Yohk took up residence inside an abandoned temple of a lesser god in the Street of Frogs. There he practiced thaumaturgies that called upon Nasht and Kaman-Thah and summoned some of their priests as he had taken something from them he keeps in an ebon box.
The narrator further explains that Yohk had travelled far and wide, meeting with the King in Yellow in Carcosa, and heard the fluting tunes of Bokrug in the ruins of Sarnath. He studied black magic in the Plateau of Leng, gazed with his soul into the Vale of Pnath, and approached the great city of Kadath. This gave him experience in magic that one quite possibly shouldn’t. His aim was to find a key to freeing the Great Old Ones to receive untold wealth beyond avarice. But since a spell never existed in the world, he sought to look ‘behind’ it. He approached the House of the Worm and entered, performing a ritual that he believed failed. He soon vanished and his former neighbors reported a foul smell and rats scurrying around the Street of Frogs at night. The mayor and his five augurers formed a posse to confront Yohk at the temple and discovered Yohk slimmed down in weight and performing a magic ritual with four globes of light. The people left abruptly out of respect.
==Publication History==
*The Arkham Collector, Winter 1971 (1971)
*The Arkham Collector, Vol 1 (1971)
*The House of the Worm (1975)
*The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2013)
Category:Gary Myers works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works