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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

Thank you for the review! This is an exceptionally rare privilege - I must've had like 3 reviews in the whole of history (and those were for coming second in the Lunar Awards 3 times in a row).

And you seriously are a fantastic reviewer.

I know just what you mean about humour and horror. There are quite a few humour-horror mashups I've encountered here and there on Substack. This is especially true for the cosmic horror subgenre, because it's just so alien and bizarre. When I first read HPL, about 30-odd years ago, I just never found it scary in the slightest. It was more humorous, and largely because of HPL's absurdly over-the-top use of language - all those adverbs and adjectives - ironically, the kind of use of language all these so-called 'writing experts' advise people not to do. But what do they know? HPL is still far more popular than they'll ever be.

I've also done a fair few sci-fi/humour mashups, so I get you completely about the sci-fi romp thing (see my 'Unofficial-K' section in particular - it's a series of such things with the same main character).

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Danny Maldonado's avatar

I've never been this scared to laugh

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