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A review by cheshiresnickersnack
Neonomicon by Alan Moore
4.0
The Neonomicon is a very creepy work of meta-horror. It starts out as what might be a fairly cool modern Lovecraftian tale, but then people start to realize that, hey, there are all these references to H.P. Lovecraft going down.
The kind of prudish neo-fascist FBI agent who, despite his bad attitude and bad politics, does actually have some kind of weird and creative insight into things that seem relevant in the story (anomaly theory, he calls it) is not the main attraction. But in a sense he is H.P. Lovecraft.
If you get Aklo, and Zothique, and the Ulthar Cats, and Carcosa, and "you ever heard of a shoggoth?", and Red Hook, you will like it more than those that don't.
There is the awesomely raunchy story telling (before reading Neonomicon, I don't think I really considered how awful the implications of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" are), plus the ending packs this kind of weird wallop that is like Promethea meets Lost Girls meets Cthulhu meets the Blazing World. Maybe the rising of R'lyeh is what we, who dwell on the Plateau of Leng, have been waiting for all these strange eons?
The Old Ones wait dreaming in the future...
The kind of prudish neo-fascist FBI agent who, despite his bad attitude and bad politics, does actually have some kind of weird and creative insight into things that seem relevant in the story (anomaly theory, he calls it) is not the main attraction. But in a sense he is H.P. Lovecraft.
If you get Aklo, and Zothique, and the Ulthar Cats, and Carcosa, and "you ever heard of a shoggoth?", and Red Hook, you will like it more than those that don't.
There is the awesomely raunchy story telling (before reading Neonomicon, I don't think I really considered how awful the implications of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" are), plus the ending packs this kind of weird wallop that is like Promethea meets Lost Girls meets Cthulhu meets the Blazing World. Maybe the rising of R'lyeh is what we, who dwell on the Plateau of Leng, have been waiting for all these strange eons?
The Old Ones wait dreaming in the future...