There IS and it’s all gooey and bubbly and covered in eyes!
—-Robin Stevenson, Shoggoth Under The Bed
Mural on Construction Fence
Farmer’s Market
Dallas, Texas
Chris Hoover
Years and years ago -I was in the Garland, Texas library perusing the fiction aisles. The fiction, of course, was arranged by author. At the end of each row was the start and end of the author’s names… such as Smith-Thompson, or Adams-Baker. In the C section it had Clark-Cthulhu. That caught me off guard. I didn’t know that Cthulhu had written any popular fiction. I checked the stacks and there was a collection of short stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos written by a variety of authors and the person that cataloged the book mistakenly thought that Cthulhu himself, the great evil one, born on the planet Vhoorl in the 23rd nebula from Nug and Yeb had actually penned the tome himself.
I really wanted that little plastic sign and considered prying it off when nobody was looking. Unfortunately, I am too honest for that. When I moved to Richardson I stopped going to the Garland library on a regular basis and the last time I visited the fiction section had been reorganized and the sign was long gone.
So you have to take my word for it. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
Nothing better than flash fiction written in the Cthulhu mythos… even if it is only a monster under a bed.
Read it here:
Shoggoth Under The Bed by Robin Stevenson
from Sweet Pandemonium
Bill Chance 
actually written by me several years ago
What? Did Tom Burton take credit for your writing?
Yes. As you can see, Robin posted the original story seven years ago:
http://sweetpandemoniumdesign.blogspot.com/2013/10/theres-shoggoth-under-bed.html
Wow, I had no idea. When I get a minute, I’ll change my link and give credit to Robin.
Someone should comment on Tom Burton’s site – he has a copyright notice there and everything.
Quite a few people have posted there, but since he moderates comments they have not been published.
Ok. I’ll change my links when I get home from work. Sorry, but I had no idea.
Unfortunately we’ve discovered that the writer has additional form for doing this.
His story here: https://slumdogsoldier.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/spark/?fbclid=IwAR2DQBK2TxGGyGeFrqb46lOf5FWZ27OputFXYGpytFh51wzJ874K-E61SEw
was stolen from a story by Holly Wells here: https://literallystories2014.com/2019/07/29/blue-flame-rising-by-holly-wells/
I have a feeling the more we’ll dig into that guy’s website, we’ll find more things like this crawling out.
Wow. That’s really messed up. I feel bad for linking to the guy, but I had no way of knowing. I just searched for “Lovecraft Flash Fiction” – I change the links as soon as I get home (my work PC won’t allow me to edit blog entries).
Oh yeah, completely understandable and I wasn’t criticising! I though it was just useful to provide full information. Thanks for changing the post.
Thank you for your swift attention to giving the credit to the original author. Robin writes some cool stuff. I am talking with him about making a show out of some of it.