Reanimatrix
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
An obsessed detective on the trail on a murdered young woman finds more than he bargained for in this tale of hard-boiled cosmic horror, an inventive mash-up of the pulp detective story and Lovecraftian terror.
Some say the war drove Robert Peaslee mad. Others suggest that given what happened to his father, madness was inevitable. He’s spent years trying to forget the monsters that haunt his dreams, but now has returned to witch-haunted Arkham to do the only job that he’s qualified for, handling the crimes other cops would prefer to never talk about. He’s the hero Arkham doesn’t even know it has.
Megan Halsey is dead, her body missing. She might have been one of the richest young women in Arkham, but all that money couldn’t make her happy. Word on the street is that her mother split a long time ago, and Megan had spent a lot of her money trying to find her.
Peaslee soon becomes obsessed with the murdered Megan. Retracing the steps of her own investigation, traveling from Arkham to Dunwich, and even to the outskirts of Innsmouth, he will learn more about Megan and Arkham than he should, and discover things about himself that he’d tried to bury.
It’s 1928, and in the Miskatonic River Valley, women give birth to monsters and gods walk the hills. Robert Peaslee will soon learn the hard way that some things are better left undead.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rawlik (A Lonely and Curious Country), student of all things H.P. Lovecraft, takes readers on a kaleidoscopic terror ride through Arkham and Dunwich, layering the cosmic weirdness of Lovecraft's world over a compelling mystery and name-checking characters from the mythos with abandon. WWI was a house of horrors for Massachusetts State Policeman Robert Peaslee, and the nightmares have chased him well into the 1920s. When Megan Halsey-Griffith, a family friend whom he met as a young girl, is found dead, he fixates on her life and vows to find her killer. Through Megan's diary entries, Robert learns of the diabolical experiments Megan's mother, Elizabeth, was connected to before she disappeared; Megan's search for Elizabeth took her to a den of otherworldly erotic pleasures and led to the discovery of plans to raise an undead army. The format of letters and diary entries feels disjointed (many sections would work perfectly as short stories, and in fact some have appeared in anthologies) and the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach may alienate readers who aren't familiar with Lovecraft's complex universe. Lovecraft connoisseurs, on the other hand, will find much to love in this frequently gruesome and, at times, quite racy tale.
