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Pros
The tales in this marvelous collection contain elements of the darkest horror, fantasy, hauntings, suspense and adventure. The stories are inventive and varied. The writing style is eminently readable and is evocative. Every tale has a happy ending.
A dominican inquisitor interrogates a shoggoth brought back by spanish sailors in 1535. Some shipwrecked scottish sailors enter a deserted japanese temple guarded by the spirit of a samurai. A shipwreck, a temple, a hoard of treasure.
The scotsman’s fiddle’ is one of those strange carnival stories mixed with revenge and ghosts. The yule log” is another tender ghost story about a lonely man at christmas. Old timey.
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Quality
This collection starts with the title story of the surviving members of a shipwrecked crew discovering a temple with riches tha... Read More
William is able to combine the same sardonic wit my grandfather had with the more hilarious aspects of scottish humor.
Competitiveness
Of all things, the story centers around a dieting competition gone very wrong.
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- This product had a total of 30 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 6 2023.
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On rereading it i was struck by how there are no explicit references to the mythos in it
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I suppose you could see this as a takeoff on clark ashton smith’s “the coming of the white worm” or august derleth’s ithaqua
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But he isn’t prepared for the answers he gets
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Meikle makes no secret of his love for bmovie monsters and “rickman’s plasma” is kind of a mythos tale by way of a b movie
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But it’s a lot of plot and no interesting characters and feels like a condensed novel
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None of the stories sound likes m
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But mine owner malone is not real pleased at what a fiddle tune does to his workers
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