The God of Dark Laughter

"The God of Dark Laughter" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Michael Chabon, first published in The New Yorker in April 2001 Title: "The God of Dark Laughter" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
A bereaved husband and father is involved in the investigation of a murder in his capacity as district attorney. The ritualistic killing, that of a circus clown, leads him to uncover the existence of two warring cults, each of which follow different gods and possess polarised outlooks on the nature of the universe.
==Behind the Mythos==
The narrator's research leads him to a book on the occult written by Friedrich von Junzt, best known as the author of the blasphemous tome the Unaussprechlichen Kulten.
==Publication History ==
*The New Yorker (2001)
*The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002, St. Martin's Griffin)
*Feeling Very Strange (2006, Tachyon Publications)
*American Fantastic Tales (2009, The Library of America)
*Sympathy for the Devil (2010, Night Shade Books)
*The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2012, Tor/SFBC)
*The Book of Cthulhu II (2012, 2022, Night Shade Books)
==References==
Category:Michael Chabon works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works