It's October, so Locus actually ran some reviews of horror novels in its pages. Among them, Brian Keene's and my The Damned Highway. The review reads, in part:
"...in truth, it's impossible to tell where on writer leaves off and the other picks up—a rare and wonderful thing in a collaboration. A book like this stands or falls by the authenticity of the narrative voice, and their impersonation of Thompson ranges from the pretty good to the nearly perfect."
"It's a profoundly political novel, which is no surprise, given the authors involved; in the final chapter, Thompson explains that he's going to send this unpublished account to the 'vicious Libertarian' Keene and the 'avowed Communist' Mamatas to do with as they see fit. The association of our modern political parties with Lovecraftian cults—which are, after all, full of people futilely worshiping powerful beings who are either indifferent to humanity, or outright hostile toward us—is the novel's central metaphor, and it's a nastily inspired one."
Buy it to find out how the 2012 election will turn out!
"...in truth, it's impossible to tell where on writer leaves off and the other picks up—a rare and wonderful thing in a collaboration. A book like this stands or falls by the authenticity of the narrative voice, and their impersonation of Thompson ranges from the pretty good to the nearly perfect."
"It's a profoundly political novel, which is no surprise, given the authors involved; in the final chapter, Thompson explains that he's going to send this unpublished account to the 'vicious Libertarian' Keene and the 'avowed Communist' Mamatas to do with as they see fit. The association of our modern political parties with Lovecraftian cults—which are, after all, full of people futilely worshiping powerful beings who are either indifferent to humanity, or outright hostile toward us—is the novel's central metaphor, and it's a nastily inspired one."
Buy it to find out how the 2012 election will turn out!