I’m always happy to use the words eldritch and horror in the same sentence. The stone the tide unearthed showed carvings of creatures: which creatures I wasn’t sure, but they possessed a heaping helping of tentacles, wings, eyes, and talons.
That explained a lot. The mysterious disappearances from the beach, the green lights hovering over the moonless bay, the shrieking of ghastly voices on windless nights.
This was perfect.
There is a demographic who would risk madness and death to glimpse anything described as eldritch horror.
I started the R’yleh Diving Club and waited for the freaks to pour in.
The nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults.
— H. P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu” (1928)
The Green-Walled Tower 
April 26th, 2019 at 9:44 am
What an enterprising fellow!
April 26th, 2019 at 9:03 pm
This is so good, David!
May 1st, 2019 at 7:41 pm
Thanks, Dale! 🙂
April 27th, 2019 at 5:31 am
Dear David,
Sounds like a frightening place. You describe it well.
Shalom,
Rochelle
April 27th, 2019 at 5:31 am
brilliant piece of writing. I keep staring at it waiting for more to appear.
April 27th, 2019 at 3:11 pm
I’m always amazed at the people who will pay good money to have the shit scared out of them. Why don’t they just take a laxative?
May 1st, 2019 at 7:40 pm
That would be more efficient. They must like the inhuman touch. 🙂
April 27th, 2019 at 5:41 pm
Very scary, and that guy will go far, he doesn’t seem to have any scruples. Great description of the eldritch horror.
April 27th, 2019 at 10:26 pm
Wonderful story!
April 28th, 2019 at 7:40 am
The descriptions are great, David. He’s liable to get more than he expects. Good writing. 🙂 — Suzanne
April 28th, 2019 at 1:54 pm
It could have been the black lagoon too… I do remember the creature there.
May 1st, 2019 at 7:40 pm
Maybe it’s next door. I could imagine a whole neighborhood of haunted bodies of water.
April 29th, 2019 at 9:02 am
Eldritch horror. I have to go look up eldritch. Not the first time I’ve seen it, but now I’m curious 🙂
May 1st, 2019 at 7:39 pm
Yeah, it’s the sort of word I really only see in very specific situations, such as in horror stories involving monsters with lots of appendages.
May 2nd, 2019 at 8:40 am
It’s a simple definition, really, but a really cool-sounding word 🙂
April 30th, 2019 at 1:11 am
Excitement of seeing things unknown and unseen attracts men / women who are curious to explore new ground.
April 30th, 2019 at 5:28 am
Some people just have a flair for business. Good one.
April 30th, 2019 at 6:49 am
Wonderfully imaginative!
Enjoyable read, David.