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Crowley: Episode One: The Ravensblack Affair
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"Spikey characterisation and smart plotting make this a great, if alarming, read!" (Simon Kurt-Unsworth - The Devils Detective/Quiet Houses)
"I really enjoyed this one. Eddie Skelson does an excellent of making his main protagonist, Crowley, a thoroughly likable, yet intensely unlikable character. " (Rob J Hayes - The Ties That Bind Trilogy)
Book Description
His reputation is notorious, his activities infamous, but there is more to Aleister Crowley than meets the eye.
Crowley is a four part series of stories that introduce the worlds premier black magician in an entirely new light as he battles with dark forces that threaten to spoil the bloody good time he's having. A dark and humourously twisted adventure story steeped in Lovecraftian weirdness.
"Spikey characterisation and smart plotting make this a great, if alarming, read!" (Simon Kurt-Unsworth - The Devils Detective/Quiet Houses)
"I really enjoyed this one. Eddie Skelson does an excellent of making his main protagonist, Crowley, a thoroughly likable, yet intensely unlikable character. " (Rob J Hayes - The Ties That Bind Trilogy)
Book Description
His reputation is notorious, his activities infamous, but there is more to Aleister Crowley than meets the eye.
Crowley is a four part series of stories that introduce the worlds premier black magician in an entirely new light as he battles with dark forces that threaten to spoil the bloody good time he's having. A dark and humourously twisted adventure story steeped in Lovecraftian weirdness.
94 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 31, 2015
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May 23, 2015
First of all this is a very easy read, and that is NOT a derogatory statement, if someone is looking for something quick this is the book for you!
Crowley is a totally fictitious character in this book, one who invokes our sympathies rather than disgust (although elements of the real man's life are evident he is actually an anti-hero). Crowley is enlisted by the police to help solve a mystery at the house of Roman Ravensblack, a fellow occultist. Crowley leads the way along with typical British, almost haphazard Policemen in the form of Bryson, Reed and Lafferty.
The book is a horror story and Skelson doesn't disappoint! The house is filled with decapitated corpses, bloody walls, and zombie-type beings all controlled by the Mokoi.
As well as being brilliantly horrific there are some really funny moments that I think only the British can fully understand and they actually had me chuckling and I doubt I'll ever look at a potato in the same way again!
Crowley is a totally fictitious character in this book, one who invokes our sympathies rather than disgust (although elements of the real man's life are evident he is actually an anti-hero). Crowley is enlisted by the police to help solve a mystery at the house of Roman Ravensblack, a fellow occultist. Crowley leads the way along with typical British, almost haphazard Policemen in the form of Bryson, Reed and Lafferty.
The book is a horror story and Skelson doesn't disappoint! The house is filled with decapitated corpses, bloody walls, and zombie-type beings all controlled by the Mokoi.
As well as being brilliantly horrific there are some really funny moments that I think only the British can fully understand and they actually had me chuckling and I doubt I'll ever look at a potato in the same way again!
March 23, 2016
One Line Review: Dream boats and drugs, open robes, peril, more peril, death, blood, potatoes, fire, madness.
So I'll start by saying that I really enjoyed this one. Eddie Skelson does an excellent of making his main protagonist, Crowley, a thoroughly likable, yet intensely unlikable character. And that's where the strength of the novel lay for me. The interactions between the characters were a lot of fun with the witty dialogue coming at the right times to relieve some (not all) of the tension at the right times.
The plot zips along at a quick pace and does a good job of explaining the Lovecraft-ian mythos and jargon to a complete noobie like myself. I never felt out of depth due to not having ever read any Cthulu-based literature.
The only real issues I had with the book were to do with the PoV switchings often being un-signposted. Sometimes we'd have a paragraph of Crowley's thoughts, followed by a paragraph of the monster's thoughts, without any indication that we were changing. This is fine, but I struggled probably because my brain isn't wired that way.
And the actions scenes tended to use a lot of past tense instead of present tense which dragged me out of the action a bit and interrupted the flow.
All in all episode one of Eddie Skelson's Crowley is a thoroughly enjoyable read with some real gems when it comes to dialogue and a story that leaves you wanting more... which there is in episode 2.
I give Crowley a solid 3.5 stars, but as always I round up so 4 it is.
So I'll start by saying that I really enjoyed this one. Eddie Skelson does an excellent of making his main protagonist, Crowley, a thoroughly likable, yet intensely unlikable character. And that's where the strength of the novel lay for me. The interactions between the characters were a lot of fun with the witty dialogue coming at the right times to relieve some (not all) of the tension at the right times.
The plot zips along at a quick pace and does a good job of explaining the Lovecraft-ian mythos and jargon to a complete noobie like myself. I never felt out of depth due to not having ever read any Cthulu-based literature.
The only real issues I had with the book were to do with the PoV switchings often being un-signposted. Sometimes we'd have a paragraph of Crowley's thoughts, followed by a paragraph of the monster's thoughts, without any indication that we were changing. This is fine, but I struggled probably because my brain isn't wired that way.
And the actions scenes tended to use a lot of past tense instead of present tense which dragged me out of the action a bit and interrupted the flow.
All in all episode one of Eddie Skelson's Crowley is a thoroughly enjoyable read with some real gems when it comes to dialogue and a story that leaves you wanting more... which there is in episode 2.
I give Crowley a solid 3.5 stars, but as always I round up so 4 it is.
May 27, 2015
Aleister Cowley - a man of questionable morals, prosaic language and a unique approach to King Edward potatoes. Now definitely one of my favourite 'fictional' characters. Which may be slightly worrying.
Clever, inventive & humorous storytelling with dialogue which made me laugh out loud. This is a story which is ideal to read in one sitting.
I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series and discovering how the characters and their relationships develop as they move beyond their accepted level of strange and weird.
And what exactly happened in that basement………?
Clever, inventive & humorous storytelling with dialogue which made me laugh out loud. This is a story which is ideal to read in one sitting.
I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series and discovering how the characters and their relationships develop as they move beyond their accepted level of strange and weird.
And what exactly happened in that basement………?
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