A review by nigellicus
Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala

5.0

What Akira did for E*X*P*L*O*S*I*O*N*S, The Chuckling Whatsit does for murders. Hardly a page goes by without some character getting murdered horribly, usually by a man in a hideous mask with a grotesque knife. Murder, murder, murder. But why? Who is killing all the astrologers? Is it the Gull Street Ghoul back again? What is the secret society called GASH really all about? And why are they in fear of Ixnay? Will poor Mr Broom find his way through the grotesque and intricate murder labyrinth to the truth and survive? Horror and noir and German expressionism and surrealism and murder all mix it up in a ghastly and delightful entertainment of murder and psychosis and dark shadows and evil deeds. Bloody briliant.