Status Updates From Seven Footprints to Satan

I don’t think I’ve read anything quite like it. ‘There was a note pinned to my pillow. It was from Satan. A casual sort of message.’ Y’see? There’s a couple of sentences you don’t get in every book, even at Halloween. Meanwhile - it seems that the finale is going to involve some yachting…which makes my switch to The After House as my next read all the stranger, because it takes place on a yacht. Coincidences abound.

I wanted one more loud, bombastic Horror novel for spooky season, and that’s what I’ve got here. There’s some stuff in this that is a little too 1928…but overall, I’m having a blast. I checked; this is the seventh book by Merritt that I have gotten to - how fitting! Also interesting to get to this not too long after The Sorrows of Satan. Different feel, that’s for sure.

My fave Merritt book, so far, is a Horror novel, not one of his Fantasy efforts; that’s Burn, Witch, Burn. So I have high hopes for this is one, as a spooky season pick, even though I don’t know much about it. Cover and title are wild.