Written with Shea’s vibrant originality, humor, wit and street sense, the story is set in contemporary San Francisco. It pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft’s “Whisperers in Darkness” in which Tsathoggua (1930) first appeared, and to Clark Ashton Smith’s, “Tales of the Satampra Zeiros” (1931).

Michael’s “Tsathoggua” was originally published by Centipede Press, in the Shea collection “The Autopsy and Other Tales” (2008). PS Publishing reprinted the story in “Copping Squid” (2009), a collection of Shea Mythos. And, in 2017, Dark Regions Press re-released the tale along with the never before published novella “Demiurge”, in the collection of the same name “Demiurge:The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea”. It also appeared in Prime Book’s “The New Cthulthu, The Recent Weird” (2011).

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This podcast includes the vocal stylings of Andrew Leman, a founding members of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society.