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Requiem for the Burning God
Evil festers beneath the mountains of 1930s Peru, and British Great War ace turned mercenary Captain Max Calder unwittingly stumbles into the thick of it! Calder is confronted by Lovecraftian horrors, the machinations of a world-spanning cult, and a lunatic song that haunts his every step. Armed with his trusty Webley pistol and his wits, Calder must confront a cult that seeks to unleash a monstrosity on the world. Will he succumb to madness ... or will he put a bullet between the eyes of an insane god? Requiem for the Burning God is a grand pulp adventure novella inspired by the darkest imaginings of the Cthulhu Mythos.
65 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 18, 2011
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About the author
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
32 books35 followersShane Jiraiya Cummings has been acknowledged as "one of Australia’s leading voices in dark fantasy". Shane is the author of the forthcoming Yokai Wars series (Circle of Tears, Clockwork Legion, and Blight of the Underworld) and the dark fiction books The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, Shards, the Apocrypha Sequence (Deviance, Divinity, Insanity, and Inferno), and the Ravenous Gods cycle (Requiem for the Burning God and Dreams of Destruction). He has won the Australian Shadows Award and two Ditmar Awards, and he has been nominated for more than twenty other major awards, including Spain's Premios Ignotus.
Shane is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and former Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association. When he is not writing, Shane is an editor and journalist by day. By night (and on weekends), he can be found indulging in hobbies such as playing the guitar, photography, sword fighting, and testing the limits of his new cruiser motorcycle.
In his youth, Shane was trained in the deadly arts of the ninja, and the name Jiraiya (lit. "Young Thunder", after the legendary ninja Jiraiya) was bestowed upon him by his sensei.
Shane was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand, but he recently returned to his old home town to revisit the ghosts of his past.
More information on Shane (including his free fiction) can be found online at www.jiraiya.com.au.
Shane is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and former Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association. When he is not writing, Shane is an editor and journalist by day. By night (and on weekends), he can be found indulging in hobbies such as playing the guitar, photography, sword fighting, and testing the limits of his new cruiser motorcycle.
In his youth, Shane was trained in the deadly arts of the ninja, and the name Jiraiya (lit. "Young Thunder", after the legendary ninja Jiraiya) was bestowed upon him by his sensei.
Shane was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand, but he recently returned to his old home town to revisit the ghosts of his past.
More information on Shane (including his free fiction) can be found online at www.jiraiya.com.au.
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June 1, 2013
Very cool action Cthulhu Mythos and the lead character is well portrayed begging that he appears in more stories.
January 31, 2017
Raiders of the Lost Ooze
I have to admit, I've always been drawn to the darker elements of pulp fiction. I like stories about folks who try but just can't seem to get it together, or worse, those who could were it not for nefarious forces beyond their control. Stories about men's men getting into jams and fighting their way victoriously out have always held less appeal for me. But a man's man suddenly finding himself face to face with eldritch horrors? Count me in.
Max Calder fits the badass adventurer archetype like Indiana Jones, or countless pulp magazines featuring men bare-fist fighting hordes of wild animals on the covers. The adventure itself hits you at a white-knuckle fast pace, with gunfights, aerial dogfights, cave fights and dynamite fights. The whole thing is tied together with a narrative revolving around a Lovecraftian monster cult, which is honestly one of the best ways to tie anything together. Apparently this Calder gentleman has gotten himself into other sticky situations, so I'll be interested to see how he gets himself out of those.
I have to admit, I've always been drawn to the darker elements of pulp fiction. I like stories about folks who try but just can't seem to get it together, or worse, those who could were it not for nefarious forces beyond their control. Stories about men's men getting into jams and fighting their way victoriously out have always held less appeal for me. But a man's man suddenly finding himself face to face with eldritch horrors? Count me in.
Max Calder fits the badass adventurer archetype like Indiana Jones, or countless pulp magazines featuring men bare-fist fighting hordes of wild animals on the covers. The adventure itself hits you at a white-knuckle fast pace, with gunfights, aerial dogfights, cave fights and dynamite fights. The whole thing is tied together with a narrative revolving around a Lovecraftian monster cult, which is honestly one of the best ways to tie anything together. Apparently this Calder gentleman has gotten himself into other sticky situations, so I'll be interested to see how he gets himself out of those.
April 30, 2021
Novella length work about unspeakable horrors being unearthed in 1920s Peru. Pretty good story but it felt a little rushed.
I found the motivation of the bad guys obscure, unless you assume they were simply under the influence of the Burning God to begin with.
I found the motivation of the bad guys obscure, unless you assume they were simply under the influence of the Burning God to begin with.
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