This novel has a bit of a reputation as being something of a takedown of cons and Lovecraftians, and ... yeah, it's that. There's more here than Mamatas taking the piss out of those things, though--it's clear there's some real admiration of at least some of Lovecraft's writing, in addition to a clear-eyed grasp of his faults; there's also a good sense of the issues inside a Fandom, and Lovecraftians are probably not all that different in how that works. The structure of the telling, with alternating narrators (one of whom is dead) works pretty well; the story grabs effectively early and hard, but the ending gets a little slippery and murky. Endings are notoriously difficult. I'm happy to have found and read this.
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