Whisper House Press

Title: In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

Author: Joe R. Lansdale

Pub Date: October 15, 2024

Publisher: Tachyon Publications

4 of 5 ⭐

Joe Lansdale’s In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft is a romp through literary voices and eras—from a noir devil-and-crossroads tale to a Twain-esque extension of Huck Finn’s adventures into the cosmic dark, and then onward to revisit Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin in solving a mystery of existential import. This reader walked away impressed with Lansdale’s uncanny ability to render into the vein of cosmic horror the style of other eras and authors who were most definitely not writing cosmic horror. Twain would be proud. As would Poe and some others. Lansdale’s tales are fun, carefully constructed, and an important contribution to the opus of cosmic horror in our fallen world.