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Cthulhu Mythos writers are a tight lot. Just as Lovecraft had his own circle of colleagues who went on write some of their own amazing weird fiction, subsequent generations have done likewise, borrowing from each other's work. This has worked particularly well for Chaosium, who is a both a fiction and role-playing game publisher. The obsessive cataloguing of every detail of the Cthulhu Mythos are attributable more to Chaosium's role-playing roots, where every mystery must be explained to the Kee...
There's the skeleton of an interesting story here, but he keeps interrupting it with tedious asides, and those asides' tedious asides.
Finished Nightmare's Disciple by Joseph Pulver. Though slow in parts (more so than need be) it becomes clear that more is at work with the characters than what appears on the surface. Even though it seems as if there is no otherworldly aspect to the story it is there beneath the surface which makes reading this pay off in the end. Yes, it's a love letter to Lovecraft and the Mythos, but it also is able to stand on its own.
Nightmare's Disciple is basically love poem to the Cthulhu Mythos and its tight-knit circle of writers and as such was meant to be tropey and even satirical at times. Unfortunately I don't think he stuck a good balance between compelling horror and self-awareness. The writing just felt sloppy and thrown together out of whatever Pulver could come up with off the top of his head. His Super Scary Serial Killer actually makes a list that includes items like "Finish sewing robe." Compare this to Warh...
Part Lovecraft pastiche, part detective novel, part grotesque fest. If you are a mythos fan you will love all the 'shop talk' and interesting tie-ins. If not, it is one enjoyable violent ride.Pulver mimics the descriptive prose style of HPL in a way that few others can.So long Joe Pulver.. IA! kASSOGTHA!
The Schenectady setting made this a fun read, but the story and characters were rather weak.
