![]() ![]() ![]() The influence of Lovecraft, the man, pervades the stories, as characters introduce or relay fragments of his own Mythos tales (and echoes of his epigone August Derleth’s vast alien cosmology) as gnostic clues, initiating the reader into another, stranger order of things. Some of the protagonists commit themselves to the eldritch or the voidal, becoming transformed or transported by their initial encounter, while others form secret covens of resistance and retelling. There is terrible joy and sadness here, for all this human wreckage. Eight stories of thirteen deal with regular people whose downward trajectories in life lead them outwards, toward fatal intersections with the living Mythos. A majority of the stories address the incursion or return of Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones – or, rather, their ineluctable presence behind the quotidian façade of modern life. A testament to Shea’s extraordinary talent as a writer and to the emotive and literary value of Mythos tales, in general. ![]()
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