As I have long suspected, Howard Phillips Lovecraft's tales of eldritch horrors beyond mortal ken were seeded with the grains of truth.

Ten years ago now, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association recorded an ultra-low frequency sound around 50º S 100º W in the Pacific Ocean. This sound matches the audio profile of a living creature. However, the frequency of the sound implies a creature much larger than even the world's largest known creature, the blue whale. This mysterious sound has come to be known as the Bloop.

I have come to believe that the sound's origin was from just a short distance away, 47.9º S, 126.43º W, which you and I both know as the coordinates of the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh. Brave scientists at BloopWatch.org share this hypothesis, and we tremble in dread, for great Cthulhu is waking. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Please eat me last.

Or so I worried, but now it looks like we'll be driven ill and insane first. As prophesied in "The Colour Out of Space", death and terror is raining down on us from the sky. This weekend, in Puno, Peru, a meteorite fell to earth. Of course, it brought the unknowable and horrifying along for the ride.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odour," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being taken to hospital, Mr Lopez said.

Ahem:

Winter came early, and was very cold. Ammi saw Nahum less often than usual, and observed that he had begun to look worried. The rest of his family too, seemed to have grown taciturn; and were far from steady in their church-going or their attendance at the various social events of the countryside. For this reserve or melancholy no cause could be found, though all the household confessed now and then to poorer health and a feeling of vague disquiet. Nahum himself gave the most definite statement of anyone when he said he was disturbed about certain footprints in the snow.

You will, of course, agree in the face of the evidence presented that we are dealing with the same non-humanoid, mutagenic, extraterrestrial "colour." Try not to buy any Peruvian skunk-cabbage this autumn, beloved readers.

Regardless, we're all going to die.

Flux has got her Mi-Go brain cylinder prepared for her exit from this doomed planet. How about you?

Jace

San Francisco, CA

February 2004

SEP 19, 2007 12:13 PM

I read a comment on this story that it was probably sulfur or something coming out of the asteroid that was making people sick. Apparently that happens.

Not to burst your bubble or anything.

Sid

SUICIDEGIRL

Colorado, USA

SEP 19, 2007 12:15 PM

zombie apocalypse?

zarth

Seattle, WA

December 2004

SEP 19, 2007 12:17 PM

Iä!

Kindle

Houston, TX

March 2006

SEP 19, 2007 12:19 PM

We's all gonna die?! Oooh...

Domo_Kun

Rockford, IL

March 2005

SEP 19, 2007 12:22 PM

Lä, Shub-Niggurath! Lä!

Yog Sothoth is the gate.

zoophagous

USA

November 2006

SEP 19, 2007 12:23 PM

I like this one Flux, well written and imaginative....might as well make the most of our time left

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY

May 2003

SEP 19, 2007 12:24 PM

Jace said:
I read a comment on this story that it was probably sulfur or something coming out of the asteroid that was making people sick. Apparently that happens.

Not to burst your bubble or anything.

Sulfur is yellow.

Hastur, one of the Great Old Ones, is also known as "The King In Yellow".

Coincidence?

xfinitex

East Lansing, MI

August 2005

SEP 19, 2007 12:27 PM

Good thing I make my weekly sacrifice to Dagon and Hydra out on Devil's Reef.

CherryCoke

Derry, NH

May 2007

SEP 19, 2007 12:28 PM

Uncognitive said:

Sulfur is yellow.

Hastur, one of the Great Old Ones, is also known as "The King In Yellow".

Coincidence?

Oh my god.
We really are going to die. Aren't we?

rfeprod

Rockville Centre, NY

October 2004

SEP 19, 2007 12:35 PM

Cthulhlu already came in the eighties. He was spawned by a bunch of underwater vampires, but was slaughtered by a torrent of running water by an elemental. This was all documented in an issue of<i> Swamp Thing</i>.

zarth

Seattle, WA

December 2004

SEP 19, 2007 12:36 PM

Let us slay the heretic and feast upon his entrails.

FreakPirate

Canada

November 2002

SEP 19, 2007 12:40 PM

One of my favorite comics

Gerry_D

Los Angeles, CA

May 2003

SEP 19, 2007 12:44 PM

Jace is one of them! One of them!

Also, you can hear our new lord and master right here.

King_Mob

I'm lost

September 2005

SEP 19, 2007 12:47 PM

Okay, it's a long shot BUT if I play my cards right and was the second last person left, AND the last man on earth: would Flux eat tea and crumpets with me?

MrCrisp

I'm lost

August 2004

SEP 19, 2007 12:55 PM

i...love you

J24U

Danvers, MA

February 2006

SEP 19, 2007 01:00 PM

Shit, might as well get this over with as soon as possible
*packs car, heads to Innsmouth*

c4ff31n3

I'm lost

November 2004

SEP 19, 2007 01:21 PM

Takin' my silver key to the Snake Den.

Krass_of_nod

Bend, OR

April 2005

SEP 19, 2007 01:30 PM

no no its all sideways, the aliens are coming and cthuhlu knows, so he is waking up and gonna eat some alien ass for once...psssssh everyone knows he got bored eating the stuff here shit he ate so much he got sick of how it tasted, now that the smelly aliens are coming hiss belly rumbles in delight

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

SEP 19, 2007 01:41 PM

Flux said:
Flux has got her Mi-Go brain cylinder prepared for her exit from this doomed planet. How about you?

The Fungi can kiss my ass. They don't even keep their own home from being disqualified as a planet and we're supposed to ask them to help us? Psh.

I'll take my chances.

Odradek

Buffalo, NY

September 2007

SEP 19, 2007 01:42 PM

This would be the best solution to the world's problems! Awesome analysis!

Zamuzel

United Kingdom

September 2006

SEP 19, 2007 01:43 PM

Run for the hills!

RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mellon

Brattleboro, VT

October 2004

SEP 19, 2007 01:44 PM

Have you read Charlie Stross' latest take on the Cthulhu mythos? It's in a collection called The Jennifer Morgue. It's quite good.

Horrorflick

Detroit, MI

February 2003

SEP 19, 2007 01:44 PM

I love you too. (Even though we're all going to die...)

xfinitex

East Lansing, MI

August 2005

SEP 19, 2007 02:05 PM

Zamuzel said:
Run for the hills!

RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The hills aren't safe dude. Thats where Ithaqua chills.

Ha anyone get that? Ithaqua? Chills? I kill me.

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