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The Mayan adventure wraps up abruptly with Kennedy encountering a Dark Eidolon and Boots exiled to the desert. Flash forward 15 years and we are out of the weird adventure and into the weird horror as Boots’s sister, Cliona, is home alone with her bulldog Snookums. Yes, really. Right now it’s illustrating the paranoia of being home alone at night for the first time, but the reader knows that something’s amiss.
— Feb 14, 2026 03:33PM
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Like REH, GBB has a fascination with Irish strong men. There’s also the admiration of the citadel warriors for Colin’s fighting prowess. Unlike Cerberus, however, Boots’s comrade—Kennedy—is a villain in ascent. It’s interesting because the Weird is reflected in Kennedy’s reaction to Tlallopan far more than the easygoing, gregarious Colin/Boots.
— Feb 13, 2026 02:27PM
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This book’s introduction attempts to enshrine Gertrude Barrows Bennett in the grand lineage of weird fiction as a contemporary of (if not crony of) H.P. Lovecraft, historically significant as a female author, as well as an author of science fiction. It’s an interesting essay and has me excited to get around to her Nightmare collection of dark fantasy stories.
— Feb 13, 2026 01:01PM
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Feb 14, 2026 03:37PM
The Mayan adventure has all of the hallmarks of developed lost world adventure. The hero is manipulated into a situation by a femme fatale, though both the hero and the Moth Girl of Quetzalcoatl are both more good-natured about it. Bennett’s hero isn’t quite sure how to take Moth Girl’s very forward and very haughty offer of becoming her mate; his reply is a sort of nervous “I’ll think about it”.
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The intro kind of spoils it but the book basically wraps up the first part by suggesting Tlalpallan is on the verge of a civil war, and Biornson has worked hard to keep the peace because a civil war could spill into the rest of the world and result in untold destruction. That’s a pretty cool concept for a much broader series!
