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The Weird Shadow Over Morecambe: A Cthulhu Mythos Novel
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Professor Mandrake Smith would be unrecognisable to his former colleagues now, but the shambling, drink-addled former Professor of Anthropology at Oxford is now barely surviving in Morecambe. Here he has many things to forget, although some don't want to forget him. Plagued by the nightmares of his past, both in Oxford and Papua New Guinea, he finds himself dragged into a morass of supernatural activity centered around the deposition of filleted corpses in the ancient rock-cut graves at St. Patrick's Chapel, Heysham Head. Unwillingly drafted into helping the enigmatic Mr Thorn, he grudgingly assists in trying to stop the downward spiral into darkness and insanity that awaits Morecambe, and then the entire world...
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“A Lovecraft-inspired horror story set in Morecambe was always going to be weird. This novel has weirdness in spades. The author grew up and, as far as I know, resides in Morecambe so his local knowledge is well-utilised here: the clifftop stone graves immortalised by the Black Sabbath album cover are central to the plot and the Midland Hotel is a key location, for example. How the locals would react to the grotesque parade of misfit and degenerate characters whose descent into homicidal madness requires less of a shove and more of a gentle push from the novel's monstrous villain is debatable, but I'm going to assume the author is writing of what he knows...
The plot takes a while to get going, but once it does, it's satisfyingly action-packed and gruesome. Its denouement is magical, combining Lovecraftian horror with the world of BBC light entertainment in a genuinely satisfying way.
That's not to say it's perfect. The mysterious organisation that the protagonist finds himself working with could do with being fleshed out a bit more and that opening couple of chapters will be too slow-moving and diffuse for some, but I'm glad I stuck with this. It's a good story and it made me smile.”Start a Book Club
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