A spooky tale with some Lovecraftian elements is my contribution for Halloween this year. It all begins with a return to a decaying family home.
Curious to hear reactions to both story and to the cover image. It's one of the better ones I have generated using AI (I use a site called Nightcafe that offers access to multiple image generation algorithms).
Halloween looms and my annual story is here. Is it a trick? Or a treat? Let me know.
One of my goals with this story was to create something vaguely in the vein of a Cthulhu Mythos story but without some of the more annoying tropes. So you've got the dark multi-generational family secrets, a terrible something lurking at the edge of reality, and even a creepy book in a forgotten language. However, you don't have letter salad names, reams of adjectives, or an italicised over-dramatic closing line. All in all, I think I managed to get some of the atmosphere of a Lovecraftian tale without the bits that don't stand up well today.
Halloween looms and my annual story is here. Is it a trick? Or a treat? Let me know.
