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Cthugha: The Burning One

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Cthugha: The Burning One

He hung motionless in a black, forbidding sky and at first thought he was suspended somewhere in the intrasolar deeps much closer to the Sun than on Earth. But then he realized that the dully gleaming orb which floated before his dreaming vision was not the Sun. Ugly dark blotches mottled the dull orange surface and great columns of spinning flame arced around the rim.... [He watched] the titan sunspots drift slowly across the hideous disc, at times growing larger and merging into great gaping chasms in the fiery atmosphere, while at others dwindling almost to nothingness.... Something was stirring deep within that fiery atmosphere; something monstrous that roared an insatiable anger against the chains of the Elder Gods which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utterly powerless to control his movements, he was diving headlong towards that ravening chaos, that age-old intelligence which was Cthugha.
—John Glasby, The Dark Mirror

Cthugha is a Great Old One created by August Derleth for H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
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This quotation must have been from Fedogan & Bremer (dormant publishing firm) book THE NEW LOVECRAFT CIRCLE . By the time it was offered for sale, I had become saturated, satiated with Lovecraft fan-fiction, and so never bought a copy.

It contains 2 Glasby tales, not included in the two CRYPT OF CTHULHU issues (THE PLAINS OF NIGHTMARE and THE BROODING CITY). Dark Mirror was one, THE KEEPER OF DARK POINT was the other. By then I was fed up with Glasby's screaming hysteria.