by John Hornor Jacobs
"Southern Gods" is a Lovecraftian novel set in rural 1950's Arkansas. Jacobs does a great job mixing a hard-boiled-esque detective story with a tale of something much, much older.Good job!4 1/2 STARS
This was a solid 4 star book. Maybe even more, as the more I think about it the more I like it. JHJ did a really good job of character development and the plot was easy to follow and moved at a good pace. I really enjoyed the different story threads and how they melded togehter into a tight, well th...
Flannery O'Connor marries H. P. Lovecraft.Now that's a wedding I would love to attend. OK, so I might be stretching the point here but John Hornor Jacobs has managed to write an intriguing marriage of Southern Gothic and Lovecraftian horror. The plot of Southern Gods evolves around an ex-veteran knu...
Southern Gods is the debut novel of John Hornor Jacobs.I wasn't sure at first how much I was going to like Southern Gods. It started out with a great, atmospheric prologue which should have been a good thing, but prologues always send off warning signals to me that the book is going to need a lot of...
Bull Ingram is hired by Helios records head Scott Phelps to find two men: Earl Freeman, a missing employee, and Ramblin' John Hastur, a mysterious bluesman whose music can drive men mad. But what does Bull's job have to do with Sarah Williams, a woman who just fled her husband and fled back to Geth...
The hard-boiled investigator was brutal, which I liked. Too much of the story was driven by fate (coincidence) and divine intervention, which I'm not too keen on. Overall, it was a solid, entertaining debut and I'd certainly pick up another book by this author.
If you like the horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft or any of the authors influenced by him (which is pretty much anyone who has written a horror novel in the last century) then you should definitely read this. It's a horror story set in the 1950s South, mixing Elder Gods with the blues, full of gibber...
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