Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

 

If you've been looking for a novel that riffs on Scooby-Doo, landing somewhere in the overlapping middle ground of piss-take and loving riff counterpoised with small-town Lovecraftian badness, with side helpings of awesome doggo, bildungsromain, and lesbian romance, look no further--this is the book that's been missing in your life. Even if you aren't looking for such a novel, this is very much worth reading: The prose is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and there's deeper stuff lurking in it (and that's not just the abandoned mine).