Lord Malaphus wrote:You wrote that 5 years ago? It was a great story to read. You know Lomax I love to read those Lovecraft fan anthologies? Those collections of tales by other writers,who write after Lovecraft's style? And your story is actually better then some of those I've read in them. You really ought to submit this one! It is good enough to be included in my opinion.
And by any chance have you read the tales of a dude named Laird Barron? He's an Alaskan who writes top notch tales in the Lovecraftian mold. I think you'd love his stories. And this tale reminded me a bit of his first novel The Croning. It's a story about a being called Old Leech. Your monster in this tale could be one of Old Leeches avatars! It's symbol is a broken wormlike ouroborous.
There has been an awful lot of Lovecraft-imitation. Some of it in the man's lifetime, as he encouraged that sort of thing. I have an old anthology containing Cthulhuesque tales by August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch - even Robert E Howard. And I found them unsatisfactory. True, even Lovecraft himself was a bit hit-and-miss, but his best stuff remains unsurpassed after nearly eight decades.
I can't say that I've heard of Laird Barron. Maybe I'll give him a try.
Great story! Hope you write more!
Funny you should say that...
If you mean you hope I write more Lovecraftian stories - then I have. A new anthology of stories inspired by Providence's most famous son will shortly be published, and a tale by me (not this one) is included. More details as and when - watch this space.
If you mean you hope I write more Sinking stories - well watch this space again. For slightly longer, but I've been working on something for a while. An embarrassingly long while, actually, but still. My muse is lethargic these days.