Review of The Terror at Miskatonic Falls by Kevin Lucia
A.E. Jackson Review Score: 3 / 5 Ravens
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It seems winter is always coming. While you’ve still got the chance to prepare for what awaits all mankind, pick up a copy of this unique work. The Lovecraftian tale unfolds in the traditional epistolary fashion. The journal of a haunted cop who has barely survived something otherworldly that he didn’t even leave with his mind intact.
Winter fell hard on the small Massachusetts town of Miskatonic Falls. Icy wind brought more than ice and snow, however. It also brought something ancient, alien, and evil. As temperatures drop and snow drifts build, a creeping horror crawls over the town and its inhabitants, pulsing an insistent mantra into their slowly unraveling minds: The Long Man Cometh.
When the end does come, it is swift, silent, and unnoticed.
Until a lone state trooper is sent to investigate a strange phone call from somewhere in the small town. When he reaches Miskatonic Falls, however, he finds no people. No answers. No hope.
Over 30 contributors unveil an intimate look at the last surviving moments of a town gone mad, revealed through a bloody trail of scraps of verse. Read at your risk, dear traveller... Because the Long Man is coming.
Fans of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos rejoice. A new tome has arrived which draws from the interwoven elements, characters, settings, and themes found throughout his works - as seen through the eyes of over thirty contributors.
The poetry in this assembled missive gets creepier and scarier as the story unfolds. A true sense of disquiet and unease wraps around the reader like tentacles.
The graphics commissioned for the work carry the exceptional content forward and help to evoke much of the dire emotion. Each page brings the reader deeper into scenes of discord and madness.
As the officer uncovers poetry and scraps of story throughout the dissected town, readers continue to gain information which raises the stakes and increases the fear.
The Terror at Miskatonic Falls is unsettling, and disturbing. An all around good time for Howard Phillips’ most devout fans set in a frozen Lovecraftian landscape.
Kevin Lucia is the eBook and trade paperback editor at Cemetery Dance Publications. His short fiction has been published in many venues, most notably with Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, David Morell, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, and Robert McCammon. His first novel, The Horror at Pleasant Brook, is forthcoming from Crystal Lake Publishing, October 2023. https://www.crystallakepub.com
Read more from Kevin Lucia at https://kevinlucia.substack.com and find him on social media at Facebook(@CDebookpaperbacks), and Twitter(@KevinBLucia).