Steve Lockley
Author of The Sign of Glaaki
Works by Steve Lockley
Of Time and Dust 4 copies
Mostly Human 3 copies
Northern Fire 2 copies
The Bell 2 copies
Wassailing 1 copy
The Last Card 1 copy
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The Chronicles of the Holy Grail: The Ultimate Quest from the Age of Arthurian Literature (1996) — Contributor — 76 copies
Jack Be Nimble 1 copy
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Despite the presence of Ramsey Campbell's ancient god Glaaki in the book's title, the god and its cult as represented here have little detail in common with "The Inhabitant of the Lake." Glaaki is still in a lake, but has been transposed from the Severn Valley in England to Dunwich, Massachusetts. The Dunwich setting notwithstanding, there are no explicit allusions to the events of Lovecraft's "Dunwich Horror," even when the investigators visit Professor Armitage at the Miskatonic University Library in Arkham.
The story uses many conventions of the murder mystery genre in addition to its horror elements, and these are fairly effective at moving the plot along. The disappearance of a movie actress and the murder of her replacement are--at first--the central subjects of investigation. What might have been a tame denouement in the final chapter pivots the focus back from mystery to horror.… (more)