Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Creative Mythographers On the Move

In Micah S. Harris' THE ELDRITCH NEW ADVENTURES OF BECKY SHARP, the villainess of the Victorian classic Vanity Fair enters the Cthulhu Mythos as an agent of H.P. Lovecraft's Great Race of Yith!

Cover, frontispiece, and title page illustrations by Loston Wallace! With a mini-introductory essay by Mark (Xenoxoic Tales, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, King Features' Prince Valiant) Schultz!

And the answers to these and other metafictional mysteries: 1) The circumstances of the unheralded first attempted Lidenbrock Expedition to the Center of the Earth! 2) The secret parentage of Ann Darrow, bride of the fearsome Kong! 3) The apocalyptic origins and final fate of Queequeg's fetish and how it went from pagan idol among the wreckage of the Pequod to a dust-gathering paperweight at 221-B Baker Street!

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2 comments:

Toby O'B said...

This was a fun read which paid off successful searches for some of the more obscure references without being a real chore (Sorry, Silverlock fans).

I loved this story! And Inner Toob celebrated it by posting pictures of the actors who played these roles on TV.....

Duane Spurlock said...

I love this kind of stuff.