![]() Shea was also fascinated with Lovecraft’s novel of Antarctic horror, At the Mountains of Madness, and his stories “Under the Shelf” and “Beneath the Beardmore” take us to that frozen land of death and terror. The much-reprinted “Fat Face” takes us into the seedy underworld of prostitutes and drug dealers in San Francisco, while other tales such as “Dagoniad,” “Copping Squid,” and “Tsathoggua” vividly meld Lovecraftian cosmic horror with the contemporary world of California, with its swimming pools and beachcombers. In his Mythos tales, Shea has infused his own unique vision and perspective. But Shea has done a lot more than merely mimic Lovecraft’s prose or add a new god or “forbidden book” to the Mythos. Lovecraft-an entire universe of gods and monsters that hundreds of writers have imitated. For more than thirty years, Michael Shea has been making his own distinctive contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos devised by H. ![]()
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