He crawls through tunnels again to get to the land of the Gugs, in the company of three ghouls and a headstone (Col. Nepemiah Derby, obit 1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem) in case they need to … Continue reading →
Hours of chafing, blistering climbing later, Carter reaches the top of the ladder, at what Lovercraft calls a crag high over Pnath. I was under the impression that a crag was a climbable cliff surface, but what he describes is … Continue reading →
Picking up from yesterday with the second half of this issue. The TL;DR verdict is that it’s a pretty okay issue, not as good as the June issue but the June issue was really stellar. Gray Rinehart asks What is … Continue reading →
It gets dark quick up there where the air is thin, and Carter’s not equipped to climb down (or up) in the black of night. He stretches out on the ledge, in the cold, and waits for morning. Stars come … Continue reading →
After what felt like an interminable wait, Asimov’s for July 2013 arrived in my mailbox last week. I’m sure you’re dying to know my thoughts, and how many adjectives I squeeze in. Halotype 1402, by Ted Kosmata, runs ~11 page, … Continue reading →
As Carter climbs Mount Ngranek he’s reassured by occasional signs that pumice-gatherers have come this way before him. Handholds, marks carved in the rock, that kind of thing. He sees little quarries and excavations where some choice vein or stream … Continue reading →
Carter stays for a time in Baharna as the houseguest of the captain of the ship that brought him to the city, and after the captain leaves again without him he stays for a while longer in a hotel in … Continue reading →
When Carter comes to, he finds the cats in the middle of looting the wicked city of the freaky monsters. They’re happy to see him, too, inasmuch as they remember him from Ulthar. The little black kitten who befriended him … Continue reading →
Horrible, demon-haunted space. Carter panics for a second, but it’s okay, it’s okay, the ship is just going to the moon, not out to meet Azathoth or Nyarlathotep. Specifically the ship flies towards that secret and mysterious side which is … Continue reading →
Carter has to wait a month for a ship from Oriab. He tries to spend the time productively, asking after Kadath and his mysterious dream-city, but nobody admits to knowing anything. One old merchant looks all shifty and changes the … Continue reading →
