Mythos

by Bryan W. Alaspa

A private detective, secure in his beliefs in how the world works, has his life shattered the day his former partner is found dead. The police say it's a suicide, but he knows different. Against the wishes of the cops he starts to ask questions. He soon finds himself lost in a world of cults, murder and ancient evil.The world as we know it is about to change. And the detective wonders if he will be able to figure out why his friend died, and still hold on to his sanity. An ancient evil is about to surface in 21st century society. Who will be left alive?

86 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 14, 2011

About the author

I was born in the fine year of 1971 in Park Ridge, IL. I am a life long Chicago resident and I love the city. I spent a few years in St. Louis, as well. I knew I wanted to write from the time I sat down at my mom's electric typewriter in the 3rd grade. Now I do write. I write freelance and articles for online news sources. I write horror, thrillers and detective novels. I also write non-fiction in true crime and history genres. I publish my fiction myself as an indie publisher and write and have found an audience for my work among ebook fans. I publish for Kindle, Nook and other tablets and devices at Smashwords.com. My non-fiction is usually published in print, but that may soon change as ebooks become more and more of the norm.

Reviews

[Tarl · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this up because it was lovecraftian and a mythos story. The beginning of the story was well written. I enjoyed the characters and the story. The setting for what boded to be a really well done mystery story in the hard boiled fashion was set. Unfortunately the story suffers from some problems.

The first one is the editing. Throughout the story there are double words, issues with grammar and spelling issues. Most of these issues could have been solved with a couple read throughs. These errors detract from the story and tended to pull me out of the story.

Another issue was the way that the later part of the story went. Overall it felt rushed, a lot of the thought and planning of the earlier chapters vanishes and we're left with what feels like an afterthought. Where the opening chapters told a wonderful detective story chalked full of wonderful story elements, the later chapters don't flow as well. If he same level of detail and attention had been paid to this chapters, the story would have been far stronger.

This story would have gotten three stars, but these two elements dragged it down to two. Overall the story isn't that bad, and I did enjoy a majority of it. I would recommend this story to hardcore Lovecraft and Mythos fans, but otherwise I would say to pass it for the better edited ones.

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Novella. A good story.
Michael is a PI who gets a horrible phone call. His friend and former partner, Carl, is dead probably by his own hand. Carl left their partnership to become an author of detective stories.
Michael doesn't believe it was a suicide so he decides to investigate on his own. When he goes to Carl's apartment that night to have a look around he notices strange men outside who appear to be watching him.
After several encounters with the strangers Michael is hired by Adam to find an artifact that will lead Adam and his friends to a book, the Necronomicon.
The story is how you can be draw into a cult. Only this is not like any other cult you might have heard about. It revolves around the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. Could he have known more about those worlds than he let on?
Held my interest and was an easy read. I was surprised at the ending.