![]() ![]() “The Anatomy Lesson,” set in the 19th century, is an ingenious take-off of “Pickman’s Model.” “To Skin a Corpse” transmutes the central idea of “Herbert West-Reanimator” into a gritty 1930s hard-boiled idiom. A similar setting is used in “Archons,” which features a denouement both horrific and poignant. Other stories play imaginative riffs on other Lovecraftian ideas. Chief among these, perhaps, is “In the Shadow of Swords,” strikingly set in Iraq, where American soldiers during the Iraq War encounter entities far more baleful than the terrorists of the Taliban. This volume gathers the many provocative tales he has written over the past decade or more, including several novellas that lavishly expand upon core Lovecraftian themes and motifs. ![]() Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales, by Cody Goodfellow: Cody Goodfellow has emerged as one of the most dynamic writers of neo-Lovecraftian fiction in recent years. ![]()
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