Synopsis: carcosa

This year's model takes place on the planet Carcosa, a frigid nightmare with a distant red sun, liquid methane lakes, high winds, and explosive rain.
My main character is a sessile carnivore who attracts prey by emitting pheromones. The planet itself is also a character, in the time-honored tradition known as the Big Dumb Object.
The inhabitants of Carcosa share memories through the planet's neural network, a different sort of hivemind than the traditional view.
Carcosa is a planet created by Ambrose Bierce and subsumed into the greater Cthulhu Mythos as the sometime home of Hastur and the setting for parts of Robert W. Chambers the King in Yellow. Those characters exist in the narrative, but are almost completely offstage.