{"id":27418,"date":"2024-10-07T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27418"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:49:01","slug":"in-the-mad-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/10\/07\/in-the-mad-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Mad Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cover design by Elizabeth Story. Cover art by Mike Mignola.<\/em><\/p>\n

The subtitle tells you everything you need to know about this new collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories from Tachyon<\/a>. I designed the interior of the book, less floridly than some of my previous designs for Tachyon, and a little more abstractly than I’d usually do for a title such as this. All of the stories have been published before, and since I’d illustrated one of them (for Lovecraft’s Monsters<\/em><\/a>) I had vague hopes of incorporating my earlier illustration while providing new ones for the rest of the stories. This proved impossible, however; I was working on the layout while still finishing the design for The Bumper Book of Magic<\/em> so didn’t have the time to do seven more drawings. I’ll post the illustration here anyway.<\/p>\n

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The Bleeding Shadow<\/em> is a great story, a low-rent detective tale set in the 1920s in which the predicament from The Music of Erich Zann<\/em>\u2014violinist has to keep playing his instrument in order to keep something terrible at bay\u2014is recast with shellac 78s and a blues guitarist. Among the other pieces there’s a story that manages to successfully contrive a meeting between Huckleberry Finn, Brer Rabbit and the Cthulhu Mythos; and the final story which gives the collection its name, wherein the setting of Lovecraft’s Antarctic epic becomes a Sargasso-like landscape of shipwrecks, lost planes and horrors great and small. I especially enjoyed The Crawling Sky<\/em>, a story of the Old Weird West featuring a Solomon Kane-like itinerant preacher, the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer. Lansdale’s grotesque humour is to the fore in this one. I’d like to see the Reverend given a collection of his own someday.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Things Get Ugly<\/a>
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