Kthulhu Reich by Ken Asamatsu

Author:Ken Asamatsu [Asamatsu, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Japanese, nazi, horror, lovecraft, World War II, Cthulhu Mythos
ISBN: 9784909473110
Publisher: Kurodahan Press
Published: 2019-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Gigantomachia 1945

Zeus banished the Titans to Hades, enraging Gaia their mother. Gaia then gave birth to the Gigas, the race of giants, to make war upon the Gods of Olympus. The Greeks called this Gigantomachia, or the War of the Giants.

I had drifted o’er seas without ending,

Under sinister grey-clouded skies

That the many-fork’d lightning is rending,

That resound with hysterical cries;

With the moans of invisible daemons

that out of the green waters rise.

—H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

I Operation Exorios

Silence filled the belly of the great iron fish.

It was an absolute silence, those within not even daring to breathe. It filled every space: between the pipes running along the ceilings and the handles on the bulkhead doors, between the round gauges sticking out from the walls and the people watching them.

Anxiety also filled the stagnant air.

There were forty-two crew members on the U-boat, along with one intelligence officer and one woman. And, of course, one man shrouded in mystery. All shared the silence.

The shrieks and waves have stopped. What’s happened? First Lieutenant Erich Berger looked up and wiped away the cold sweat running from his chin down his neck.

The shrieking roars and the shockwaves they presumably caused had stopped for the first time in five hours, the five hours that.. . thing... had been pursuing them.

Have we escaped it? he thought, and slowly let out his pent-up breath.

The silence was broken by a metallic ping that pierced the silence. Lt. Berger turned to see what had made it, as did Executive Officer Lieutenant Leffer, and even Ship’s Captain Sigmund Roggenhagen turned away from the periscope.

Was that the sound of a lighter? Lt. Berger felt his heart leap into his throat. She couldn’t have, could she?!

Yet indeed, Inge sat there, holding back her long brown hair with an annoyed look on her face as she lit a cigarette.

“Smoking is forbidden on U-boats, Fräulein Welser.”

Inge showed no signs of putting out her cigarette, despite Oberleutnant Leffer’s admonition. She made a show of closing her lighter with another snick.

“Oh, come now! The roaring has stopped, and those shockwaves too. Now I suddenly realize how mad this all is, hiding out here at the bottom of the sea from some giant monster.”

Inge aimed her smoke-tinged complaint at Captain Roggenhagen. Lt. Berger wasn’t sure her husky voice sounded as alluring as it normally did, all things considered, for there was no telling when the figure of that monstrous thing might reappear, its horrible howls with it. Under such conditions, that seductive, husky voice was the sound of a siren singing them all to hell.

The conning tower filled with tension. Captain Roggenhagen, barely thirty years old, sought to break the foul mood as quickly as possible.

“As you say, Fräulein Welser, and yet.... It was no phantasm pursuing us: it is a thing of flesh and blood. You have witnessed its attacks since May 1st, when you joined Herr Saga. Surely you—”

The captain was interrupted by a sudden fierce shudder wracking the whole of the U-boat.

“Whoa!” Leffer gave a tiny cry as he stumbled a step.

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