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Title: Nightmare's Disciple by Chaosium Inc, Joseph S. Pulver ISBN: 1-56882-118-2 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (20 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Had hopes, was disappointed
Comment: I love Lovecraft, but this book was such a disappointment that I threw it away immediately after reading it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Must for Cthulhu Fans!
Comment: Nightmare's Disciple by Joseph S. Pulver was enjoyable and was so creepy, I started seeing things while reading in to wee hours of the morning. Mr. Pulver takes you into the realm of the unbelievable and makes it very very real. The villain is a modern day Jack the Ripper, who sacrifices his victims to the Great Old Ones (GOO). Namely Kassogatha (Cthulhu's consort demon goddess). Pulver's knowledge of Lovecraftian arcania is wide and deep. I particularly enjoyed learning about some of the music associated with the Mythos of Lovecraft. The book would easily make a fantastic movie. The only draw back (a minor one), is that the story could have been edited down by about 100 pages as much of the dialoge was too much fluff to the story but fun to read anyway.
Rating: 4
Summary: A devious little treasure
Comment: _Nightmare's Disciple_ is a delightful piece of suspense building off the premise that the Cthulhu Mythos is real and its cultists are active here and now. That being the case, how might the creatures of the Mythos manifest themselves in the modern world?
Like with many of Lovecraft's own stories, we are left unsure how much of this nightmare is a product of the characters' own madness and how much is "really" there. Especially striking are the characters who own the horror shop, who gradually come to realize that their hobby is more than just fun and games.
I don't want to say too much more, lest I give any spoilers. Mr. Pulver's novel doesn't perhaps have the *cosmic* feel of Lovecraft's best mythos stories, but it is an admirable (and I think successful) attempt to suggest how near terror may be to what we naively think of as our everyday life.
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Title: The Disciples of Cthulhu II: Blasphemous Tales of the Followers (Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series) by Edward P. Berglund, H. P. Lovecraft ISBN: 1568821433 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: New Mythos Legends by Bruce R. Gehweiler, C. J. Henderson, Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 1892669196 Publisher: Marietta Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Shadows Over Baker Street by Michael Reaves, John Pelan ISBN: 0345455282 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Taint of Lovecraft by Stanley C. Sargent, Robert M. Price, D. L. Hutchinson, Allen Koszowski, Daniel Alan Ross, Jeffrey Thomas, Peter Worthy, Richard Lupoff ISBN: 0965943399 Publisher: Mythos Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Riddle of Cthulhu by Ray Emerson ISBN: 1932047786 Publisher: Llumina Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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