The Hutchison Boy

"The Hutchison Boy" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Darrell Schweitzer.
==Synopsis==
In New Jersey during the End of Days, a family is befriended by a strange boy named Caleb who is actually a Deep One hybrid. When the creatures of the ocean call to Caleb to come to them, he believes he can take the family's son, Jackie, with him, but Jackie is unable to breathe beneath the waves and drowns. The parents then grieve while the world crumbles around them.
==Characters==
*Unnamed narrator, the father, a struggling writer.
*Margaret, the mother, an out-of-work teacher.
*Jackie, the 12 year old son.
*Caleb, a Deep One hybrid.
==Publication History==
"The Hutchison Boy" was printed in the non-Mythos anthology The Dragons of the Night in May 2016 and again in Weirdbook Annual 2 in February 2019.
Category:Darrell Schweitzer works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works