The Horror in the Museum

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"The Horror in the Museum" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The tale concerns the relationship between Stephen Jones and George Rogers, the owner of a private wax museum specialising in the grotesque. Initially cordial it degenerates as Jones first mocks Rogers then comes to suspect (correctly) he is demented with his "wild tales and suggestions of rites and sacrifices to nameless elder gods". Jones takes up Roger's standing offer to spend a night in the museum and is attacked by his host who is in turn killed by the entity Rhan-Tegoth that he has been making sacrifices to and ends up becoming part of the displays.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cthulhu Mythos connections

Although debate will always continue as to whether or not The Horror in the Museum can be considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos proper as it was a ghost written story for Hazel Heald the tale itself is littered with references to other Mythos stories, entities and objects. Such references include Tsathoggua, many-tentacled Cthulhu, proboscidian Chaugnar Faugn, the Necronomicon, the Book of Eibon, the Unaussprechlichen Kulten and it's author Friedrich von Junzt, the Pnakotic Dhol chants, Leng and the Tcho-Tcho.

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