The Prince

"The Prince" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by author Anddre Valdivia. First published in the Jesse Dedman-edited anthology Ancient Ones II in March 2018, it has yet to be reprinted Title: "The Prince" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
When volcanic activity in Argentina unearths an ancient prehuman metropolis, the archaeologist sent to investigate the ruins is driven insane by the forbidden texts which he uncovers within.
Intrigued by the mystical writings, the man's grandson embarks on a quest to find the missing pages of the fabled al-Azif. Beneath the sands of Arabia, he discovers the final resting place of Abdul Alhazred, whose shade awakens from its slumber and relates the tale of how, as a young man, he made a pact with a demon for knowledge and power. The pact doomed Alhazred, and his final days were spent committing what he had learned to paper before dying mad and alone.
As the man attempts to return to civilisation, he finds that the curse which had afflicted Alhazred has infected him as well, and he wanders the sands, certain that the same fate which befell the Mad Arab lies in his own future.
==References==
Category:Anddre Valdivia works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works