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Hastur sings the blues. H.P. Lovecraft by way of Manly Wade Wellman, and it totally works.
Night Shade Books, 2011, 300 pages
Publisher's description:
( If Faulkner GMed a Call of Cthulhu game, it might look something like this. )
Verdict: Southern gothic horror, a blues man named Ramblin' John Hastur, and Unausprichlen Kulten. This is a tasty, bloody gothic snack of a debut novel, and for any fan of Cthulhu or the blues, a must-read.
You can read the prologue and the first six chapters here, and the Baen ebook is cheaper than on Amazon and DRM-free.
Night Shade Books, 2011, 300 pages
Publisher's description:
Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music--broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station--is said to make living men insane and dead men rise.
Disturbed and enraged by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, Ingram follows Hastur's trail into the strange, uncivilized backwoods of Arkansas, where he hears rumors the musician has sold his soul to the Devil.
But as Ingram closes in on Hastur and those who have crossed his path, he'll learn there are forces much more malevolent than the Devil and reckonings more painful than Hell . . .
In a masterful debut of Lovecraftian horror and Southern gothic menace, John Hornor Jacobs reveals the fragility of free will, the dangerous power of sacrifice, and the insidious strength of blood.
( If Faulkner GMed a Call of Cthulhu game, it might look something like this. )
Verdict: Southern gothic horror, a blues man named Ramblin' John Hastur, and Unausprichlen Kulten. This is a tasty, bloody gothic snack of a debut novel, and for any fan of Cthulhu or the blues, a must-read.
You can read the prologue and the first six chapters here, and the Baen ebook is cheaper than on Amazon and DRM-free.
