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A review by zraitor
Resonator: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond by Scott Nicolay, Rodney Turner, Richard Lee Byers, Christopher Slatsky, Christine Morgan, Matthew M. Bartlett, Damir Salkovic, Robert J. Santa, Scott R. Jones, Cody Goodfellow, Orrin Grey, Edward Morris, Anya Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, Lyndsey Holder, Leeman Kessler, Darrin Brightman
4.0
This horror collection takes the device in the Lovecraft story From Beyond and looks at what the implications of that technology would be if it survived beyond that story...
From seeing the resonator be used as airport scanners, military weapons, health scams, and would be 'wizards', the idea is thoroughly explored. In many the weird creatures seen in the original story show up once more, but several take the idea further. The stories greatly vary in tone as well, ranging from dark comedy to cosmic horror and everything in between.
Most of them were pretty good, or at least fun if not. The constant body horror on display as you'd imagine with this theme was awesome. With so many authors the writing goes up and down according to tastes, and some of the stories I felt were just trying WAY too hard.
And of course, since it is a themed collection, I have to mention the idea got old and wore on me towards the end. So many of them use the main character having some sort of relation with Tillinghast, so they often have the same setup.
There were a lot of fun ideas in here, as well as some that were just annoying. It has the mixed bag thing going against it, but overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it to one in the mood for something like this.
From seeing the resonator be used as airport scanners, military weapons, health scams, and would be 'wizards', the idea is thoroughly explored. In many the weird creatures seen in the original story show up once more, but several take the idea further. The stories greatly vary in tone as well, ranging from dark comedy to cosmic horror and everything in between.
Most of them were pretty good, or at least fun if not. The constant body horror on display as you'd imagine with this theme was awesome. With so many authors the writing goes up and down according to tastes, and some of the stories I felt were just trying WAY too hard.
And of course, since it is a themed collection, I have to mention the idea got old and wore on me towards the end. So many of them use the main character having some sort of relation with Tillinghast, so they often have the same setup.
There were a lot of fun ideas in here, as well as some that were just annoying. It has the mixed bag thing going against it, but overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it to one in the mood for something like this.