Status Updates From Downward to Darkness: A Cth...

"I heard this afternoon from a thoroughly reliable source that when The Call of Cthulu was first printed in 1928, Einstein panicked. He drafted a letter urging Lovecraft's editor not to print any more stories on similar themes, but cooler heads prevailed and convinced him the best way to deal with H.P. was to ignore him completely."

"Good advice. He was the world's worst writer, in addition to being a nut."

If Frank had been given a choice, he would have picked Wagnerian opera as the last thing he wanted to blast him out of a sound sleep.Then again, maybe that choice wouldn't even have occurred to him, because no human being could be so perverse and diabolical as to wake up a fellow creature that way.The Nazis must have come back and taken over during the night. Himmler was waiting to interrogate him in the living room.

McNaughton was such an impressive stylist. Zippy, articulate, patient and genuinely disturbing--he's better than most in the genre and deserves a broader readership.