The Slimy Ones

"The Slimy Ones" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by author Mark McLaughlin.
==Synopsis==
A lonely man who has spent the most recent years of his life trying to warn the world of the dangers posed by humanoid fishmen and their space-borne allies discovers that he is in fact one of the creatures. As his transformation completes, he ambles off to find his lost kin.
==Characters==
*Michael "Fishboy" Jarvis, an outsider who believes he has important knowledge which must be shared with the world.
*George Flicker, a trash radio talk show host and distant relative of Jarvis's.
*Lavinia Thragg, a fully-transformed Deep One.
==Publication History==
"The Slimy Ones" has been included in the collections The Horror In The Water Tower & Five More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos and The House Of The Ocelot & More Lovecraftian Nightmares.
==Trivia==
*The name Lavinia is likely a nod to H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dunwich Horror", which features a degenerate cultist named Lavinia Whateley.
Category:Mark McLaughlin works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works