Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“It was difficult to have an opinion when his antagonist kept breaking the rules of reality.”

Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard

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Books like this are why I like book clubs. I never would have picked this up on my own, but it was the January pick for my library sci-fi book club, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We read the Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories for the December meeting (Lovecraft was not a great person or a great writer – so many flowery adjectives! – but I was glad to know the backstory behind the beastie that’s taken over the internet), so this was […]

Cthulhu is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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What could be worse than living in the world where the mythos of Cthulhu is real and the Old Ones are merely a spell book reading away from returning to earth to devour humanity?  This is the question asked in this novella, a re-telling of one of Lovecraft’s more infamous and racist stories, “The Horror at Red Hook.” Before I read this novella, I read that story in preparation.  Well, more accurately, I skimmed it.  I’ve read some Lovecraft and enjoyed it, when it wasn’t […]



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