I've been a HP Lovecraft and Weird West fan my entire life (since I saw the episode where the Real Ghostbusters took down Cthulhu for Lovecraft, Weird West was more a gradual thing). I recently wrote a post-apocalypse Western which is based around the Mythos and I thought I'd share it. I had a lot of fun with the concept and I think people will like it. It was published by Crossroad Press which does Brian Lumley's and Clive Barker's audiobooks too--so that's an endorsement.
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“Under an alien sky where gods of eldritch matter rule, the only truth is revenge.”
CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON is the story of a world 100 years past the rise of the Old Ones which has been reduced to a giant monster-filled desert and pockets of human survivors (along with Deep Ones, ghouls, and other “talking” monsters).
John Henry Booth is a ranger of one of the largest remaining city-states when he’s exiled for his group’s massacre and suspicion he’s “tainted.” Escaping with a doctor who killed her husband, John travels across the Earth’s blasted alien ruins to seek the life of the man who killed his friends.
It’s the one thing he has left.
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So it's nice to be counted in the Weird Western author ranks. I've written other novels, some very successful, but this was an experience. You have to be in a certain headspace to mix genres like this.
Hey folks,
I've been a HP Lovecraft and Weird West fan my entire life (since I saw the episode where the Real Ghostbusters took down Cthulhu for Lovecraft, Weird West was more a gradual thing). I recently wrote a post-apocalypse Western which is based around the Mythos and I thought I'd share it. I had a lot of fun with the concept and I think people will like it. It was published by Crossroad Press which does Brian Lumley's and Clive Barker's audiobooks too--so that's an endorsement.
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“Under an alien sky where gods of eldritch matter rule, the only truth is revenge.”
CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON is the story of a world 100 years past the rise of the Old Ones which has been reduced to a giant monster-filled desert and pockets of human survivors (along with Deep Ones, ghouls, and other “talking” monsters).
John Henry Booth is a ranger of one of the largest remaining city-states when he’s exiled for his group’s massacre and suspicion he’s “tainted.” Escaping with a doctor who killed her husband, John travels across the Earth’s blasted alien ruins to seek the life of the man who killed his friends.
It’s the one thing he has left.
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So it's nice to be counted in the Weird Western author ranks. I've written other novels, some very successful, but this was an experience. You have to be in a certain headspace to mix genres like this.