by James Ambuehl
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Hard hitting, hard edged, hardboiled stories that take Lovecraftian Mythos to places where only the toughest P.I.s, gangsters, and creatures dwell. Venture into the urban sprawl and the dark places of the world. Here the big sleep ends and the nightmares begin! This anthology contains over 20 tales blending the hardboiled genre with the Lovecraftian.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Good Cthulhian fare, 2007-12-08
Only some of the stories follow the noir-ish theme implied by the title and cover, but an above-standard collection of Lovecraft (and other authors) inspired short stories.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Just bad...., 2007-07-27
This mixing of genres seemed like a good idea, but it did not work. The only reason that it rates two stars is that there are some stories that pass: "A Little Job in Arkham" and "Unfinished Business" come to mind. And the best story in the entire collection, "The Watcher From the Grave", the piece that made me glad to have waded through the swamp of all the rest. Of course, that story was not really in the theme, but it was good.
Most of these stories, however, are just not good. A few do not even belong in this themed collection. Others are just too cliched to be believed. "Eldrich Fellas" deserves special scorn, as stuffing Old Ones into human skins to play out every cliche of the gangster genre just made me want to toss the book aside.
This is not a book a "mythos" fan needs or should want. I am hoping my local used book store will give me some credit for turning it in. $1 would be enough.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 yuck, 2007-03-27
Maybe some short stories in this book are worth reading, but I couldn't get to them - I tried the first 5 or 6, and they were very amateur and cliche. Just because an author uses the word "Cthulhu" doesn't mean it's good - the stories still need to work as stories.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gats & Gun-molls, 2007-02-07
The concept is brilliant, though drawing from the film _Cast a Deadly Spell_ in the idea of 1930s detectives and Cthulhu Mythos. Some of the stories work well, others are forced. I do hope others write more stories in this vein! Especially set in NYC. (Recently I stopped by HPL's old residence at 169 Clinton St., Brooklyn.)
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A Fair Collection, 2007-01-11
Ambeuhl's collection of "noir mythos" stories is worth the money you will lay down, but several of the stories are somewhat weak. Considering the resurgence in popularity of the 'supernatural detective' it is not surprising that Ambuehl has a large field of material to choose from, although truly well written fiction in this sub-subgenre is hard to come by. Few of the stories collected here effectively meld the tone of Chandler and Hammet with the atmosphere and world of Lovecraft.
Despite my above misgivings, there are some gems that make this collection well worth puchasing. "The Devil In You" by Eric Millar is Arkham as Frank Miller's Sin City, and Tim Curran's "Eldritch-Fellas" is a delight. Bucher-Jones offers up a scary and somehow frightening real American Theocracy in "Some Thoughts on the Problem of Order", and "Outside, Looking In" by David Conyers is almost worth the price of admission on its own. "The White Mountains" by Johnathan Sharp is a great hair raiser story of bootlegging gone awry and Ambuehl's own "The Pisces Club" is almost Chandleresque. Over all, there is more to like than dislike in this collection, and no serious Mythos fan should do without.
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