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Cthulhu in Wonderland
Horrors! While out on a lovely boating jaunt with her sister Lorina and Charles Dodgson (otherwise known as Lewis Carroll), poor Alice finds herself caught up in the tentacles of madness. Inspired by the brilliant and haunting Dreamlands works of the pre-eminent author of horror-fantasy, H.P. Lovecraft, CTHULHU IN WONDERLAND: The Madness of Alice hurls the reader down the Zoog Hole and into Wonderland to experience the sanity-leeching terror of Cthulhu, Shoggoths, the Jabberwock, the demoniac Duchess, the tyrannical Queen in Crimson and the King in Yellow himself. Filled with macabre, sophisticated and antediluvian humor, CTHULHU IN WONDERLAND is certain to leave a permanent aethereal scar upon the reader's already frail and faltering psyche.
153 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
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March 31, 2013
Not as original as it could have been. Stuck to the original story far too much.
March 26, 2024
Phew. I think Kelly used all of Lovecraft's big words in the first chapter. Not a bad tale, but if I want a Lovecraftian literary mash-up of sorts I think I'll stick with A Night in the Lonesome October.
November 13, 2024
Horror/Comedy/Classic/Retelling, and I need a second book. I finished this a while ago and have been looking so IF anyway knows of a second book. Please link it in the comments
January 29, 2012
While I'm not a huge fan of classic mash-ups like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (don't hate 'em, just not...you know...a huge fan), this book combined two of my favoritest books/authors in a marriage so natural and obvious I had to read it.
Favorite lines:
So she was considering in her own slightly blasted mind (as well as she could, for she was already faintly mad and the heat made her feel very sleepy and squamous) whether the pleasure of inscribing an Elder Sign would be worth the trouble of getting the lancet out of Mister Dodgson's boat and bleeding Lorina's veins for ink, when suddenly a White Zoog with pink nictitating eyes and tentaculoid whiskers slithered close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so very much out of the realm of sanity to hear the Zoog chant unto itself, "Ia, Shub-Niggurath, I come! I shall be late!"
lol. Squamous. Hysterical.
Perfect read for Lovecraft/Alice fans.
Favorite lines:
So she was considering in her own slightly blasted mind (as well as she could, for she was already faintly mad and the heat made her feel very sleepy and squamous) whether the pleasure of inscribing an Elder Sign would be worth the trouble of getting the lancet out of Mister Dodgson's boat and bleeding Lorina's veins for ink, when suddenly a White Zoog with pink nictitating eyes and tentaculoid whiskers slithered close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so very much out of the realm of sanity to hear the Zoog chant unto itself, "Ia, Shub-Niggurath, I come! I shall be late!"
lol. Squamous. Hysterical.
Perfect read for Lovecraft/Alice fans.
July 29, 2012
A really clever parody that might be a little too clever for its own good.
It's Alice in Wonderland, if Alice were a blasted seeker after forbidden knowledge, and the Lovecraft pantheon stood in for the denizens of Wonderland. Instead of playing croquet with flamingos and hedgehogs, Alice plays it with a ghoul's disembodied leg and the accursed Mi-go. Tentacles, ichor, and cosmic horror abound.
The author nails the whole britishness of Alice, and it's very clever writing, with more references to the Mythos than you can count. The writing is so filled with them he had to include a glossary in the back, handy if you get thrown off by some of the archaic words. The only downside to the book is that sometimes it feels too clever and less of a story: if Alice had been a normal girl rather than a deranged cultist, and he had described or explained some of the more out there Mythos it might have been better. But still this is a lot of fun if you like Cthulhu.
It's Alice in Wonderland, if Alice were a blasted seeker after forbidden knowledge, and the Lovecraft pantheon stood in for the denizens of Wonderland. Instead of playing croquet with flamingos and hedgehogs, Alice plays it with a ghoul's disembodied leg and the accursed Mi-go. Tentacles, ichor, and cosmic horror abound.
The author nails the whole britishness of Alice, and it's very clever writing, with more references to the Mythos than you can count. The writing is so filled with them he had to include a glossary in the back, handy if you get thrown off by some of the archaic words. The only downside to the book is that sometimes it feels too clever and less of a story: if Alice had been a normal girl rather than a deranged cultist, and he had described or explained some of the more out there Mythos it might have been better. But still this is a lot of fun if you like Cthulhu.
February 14, 2016
The story follows the events of the original story, but substitutes various Cthulhu-related terms in place of the original text, or sometimes replaces something altogether, as in a poem. For example, the rabbit hole is now called a zoog hole. The caucus race is now called the chaos race.
Some of this is good, but when it goes on with just word substitutions rather than anything more substantial, the story gets actually boring before long.
The section with the caterpillar-substitute is pretty good. The part with the Duchess is also pretty funny. Then it's time for the tea party. That sections more a word substitute part than anything else. The croquet game follows and again is a substitution section. After that is the mock turtle section, again mainly substitution.
Then Alice awakes and we find out what her sister knows.
The book also includes a glossary/lexicon.
Some of this is good, but when it goes on with just word substitutions rather than anything more substantial, the story gets actually boring before long.
The section with the caterpillar-substitute is pretty good. The part with the Duchess is also pretty funny. Then it's time for the tea party. That sections more a word substitute part than anything else. The croquet game follows and again is a substitution section. After that is the mock turtle section, again mainly substitution.
Then Alice awakes and we find out what her sister knows.
The book also includes a glossary/lexicon.
March 9, 2011
Everything it would appear to be; nothing more, nothing less, and that's pretty freakin' great.
August 9, 2014
Curious and clever Lovecraftian parody of Alice's adventures
December 6, 2012
trippy
January 15, 2015
Haven't read Alice in wonderland but felt too forced to cope Lovecraft mythos in Alice in wonderland story.
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August 22, 2014With a title like that, how could I pass this one up?
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