Serendipity led me to encounter a review that was written by a name that seemed familiar W.V. Buckley and so I clicked on his name to see more reviews and sure enough it was Van, one of my employees at KU Medical Center before we were all canned by David Adkins. Van died in June of 2012. Looking at his reviews I was amazed at the amount that he had written. And it made me very happy that one of m works had passed muster with him, my Lovecraftian tale: The Strange Case of James Kirkland Pilley. Heres what Van had to say about it: Back in college when everyone seemed to be reading Tolkien, I was entranced by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft was one of the writers from an earlier era who depended more on a creeping feeling of unease instead of over-the-top gross-out effects that seems to be favored by modern writers. Now Lovecraft has been reborn for a new generation in Randy Attwoods The Strange Case of James Kirkland Pilley. The story has no vampires or werewolves that seem to proliferate in modern thrillers. Instead, it follows the path laid out by Lovecraft. Theres the modern every-man who slowly descends into increasingly weird situations. Theres the bad guy who may not be really bad, just a bit toys-in-the-attic crazy. Then theres the setting ... in this case, as in some many of Lovecrafts stories, a passage that goes further and further into the earth toward ... well, to say more would spoil the story. (I always wonder what Freud would say of Lovecrafts frequent use of damp, dark underground settings, but I digress.) Amping up the creepiness factor are a Civil War backstory, hordes of workers who seem kin to zombies and the dry rattle of bones coming from cells along the passages of this underworld. Together is makes for top-notch story telling. This isnt the type of horror that makes you gag on grossness. Instead, its the kind of story thats the literary equivalent of a shudder caused be a cold hand brushing against you in the dark. amazon/Strange-James-Kirkland-Pilley-ebook/dp/B005BVZK0I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1310307234&sr=1-1
Posted on: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:14:44 +0000
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