The Lovecraft Squad
Lovecraft Squad
فرمت کتاب
ebook
تاریخ انتشار
2017
نویسنده
John Llewellyn Probertناشر
Pegasus Booksشابک
9781681773872
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
December 12, 2016
A haunted church unleashes a storm of supernatural horrors on a team of paranormal investigators in this confusingly plotted first novel of a projected trilogy. When the unearthing of a presumed lost Canterbury tale by Geoffrey Chaucer conjures nightmarish visions of All Hallows Church in south London, Bob Chambers, an agent in the Human Protection League (aka the Lovecraft Squad), descends upon the premises with investigative reporter Karen Shepworth and five other researchers. Almost immediately, malign influences drive them down into the church’s labyrinthine crypts and force them to run a gauntlet of woes appropriated from Dante’s Divine Comedy. Probert (Dead Shift) evokes horrors with cinematic vividness, but his attempts to link those of Dante’s Christian allegory to the cosmic terrors of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction is tenuous and unconvincing. His tale’s open ending leaves room for future explanation of the Lovecraft Squad, whose purpose and functions are frustratingly underdeveloped in this novel.
February 15, 2017
Created by acclaimed horror editor Jones, this first entry in a new trilogy takes H.P. Lovecraft's Elder Gods, most notably Cthulhu, and makes them prominent figures in Dante Alighieri's poetic depiction of Hell and Purgatory from The Divine Comedy. The story follows parapsychologists Bob Chambers and Karen Shepworth as they unravel the mystery surrounding bones and scrolls uncovered outside the ancient All Hallows Church in Blackheath, London. Locked in the church as part of an investigative team, they soon find themselves immersed in a world of unspeakable horror and eldritch entities who wish to throw the world into darkness and create hell on Earth. VERDICT Smartly combining Lovecraftian and classical mythologies, Probert (The House That Death Built) does an excellent job of creating a suspenseful and often horrific atmosphere without indulging in gratuitous gore or violence. Still, some more explicit depictions of hellish scenes make this title best suited for older teens and adults. Fans of Lovecraft and horror should enjoy.--Matt Schirano, Univ. of Bridgeport Lib., CT
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