Ordered these from Bullmoose the day before "Helen's Story" came in the mail.
Two of them were already in-store. The one that had to be ordered was the 10-day slowpoke.
Just picked them up.
The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)
Inserts a black protagonist into Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook".
I have "Red Hook" on free PDF to read before I jump into "Black Tom".
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)
Inserts a female protagonist into HPL's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath".
Again, I have "Kadath" on PDF before I jump into "Vellitt".
Ursula Le Guin has a blurb right on the cover.
If it's good enough for Le Guin, I had to have this like I have to have air.
Naturally, this one was the slowpoke. 😓😒
Lovecraft wasn't openly fist-shaking sexist the way he was racist; but it says a lot that the only strong female protagonist he ever did is Asenath Waite from "The Thing On The Doorstep" and she turns out to be body-swapped with her dead dad, so she's really a man in a female meat-carcass. 🙄
Ring Shout (2020)
Lovecraft-inspired without being in the actual universe.
Like how "The Orville" isn't "real Star Trek" but who are we kidding.
An alt-timeline 1920's where Klanners are demon possessed, "Birth Of A Nation" is the Hell-maw, and three black lady resistance fighters hunt Klanners like Buffy.
Sounds fun!
Not-fun fact: Young HPL gave a positive review to "Birth Of a Nation". 😒
Yep, I had to collect all the rebuttal-quels. Or as many as I could.
There are even more (there's a whole damned trilogy that rebuts the racism in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"), and I could keep going, and going, but I have to cut it off here.
I'm simply smacking into the money and time barriers, and I have to make these ones the final lap for now.
Someday, a year or so down the line, I'll do marathon #4, and scoop up those other ones.
So, this is it for awhile.
Stay tuned for the reviews.
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