Pierce Mostyn is back in an all new adventure! A creature feature extraordinaire: In the Shadow of the Mountains of Madness.
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This time around, Mostyn and his team are sent to Antarctica to investigate why a Russian base has suddenly gone silent. Once they find out why, Dr Rafe Bardon, the director of the Office of Unidentified Phenomena, sends them off to the subglacial Gamburtsev Mountains, also known as The Ghost Mountains. Because Dr Bardon thinks they fit the coordinates of the infamous Mountains of Madness.
Those familiar with the stories of HP Lovecraft will immediately recognize where the inspiration came for my story.
Lovecraft welcomed other writers to write in his Cthulhu Mythos universe. And many took him up on the invite, and many more continue to do so today.
I enjoy working in the Mythos. It’s a walk in a world where we are not at the top of the food chain. It’s a world where there are forces at work much bigger than we are. Beings to whom we are not unlike the ants on a sidewalk. Blithely stepped on without a second thought.
The universe of the Cthulhu Mythos puts humans in a place where we are not only not equal with nature, we are less than nature. It’s a universe that makes me stop and think about all of our petty squabbles. It makes me realize how, in the big picture, our troubles and problems are truly insignificant.
I’m looking at the 25th of March as the launch date of In the Shadow of the Mountains of Madness. Stay tuned!
Comments are always welcome. And until next time, happy reading!
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Oh, yes, Lovecraft was quite the yarnspinner! The first time I read him I was way too young and immature; I liked dinosaurs and giant spiders and the Beast from Haunted Cave. It’s fifty years on, and I’m working my way through the Complete Works, and boy is there a lot of cerebral activity festering just below the surface! Wish I’d tried him again when I was forty. A hell of a fine inspiration, and I wish you the greatest of luck with your work in the shadows. I hope you’ll forgive me, but I plan to plug your series by linking to this blog post on my writing-dot-com page. With any luck at all, it will bring you another reader or two…
Thanks very much for the plug and the good wishes, Jack! Appreciate it!
That’s a good way to put it: cerebral. I first met Lovecraft in Groff Conklin’s collection Omnibus of Science Fiction, when I was a wee lad in elementary school. Like you, I was undoubtedly too young to fully appreciate the story. Dinosaurs. Yeah. 🙂 But that story, “The Colour Out of Space”, stayed with me. Later, in college, I renewed the acquaintance.
The Pierce Mostyn series has quite a few nods to HPL. I hope he doesn’t mind.