OK, back to Lovecraft

As some may recall, a few years ago I wrote a lot of Lovecraftian short stories in a relatively short period, all in the “War With The Deep Ones” series. For those who don’t remember, I had an idea for a book – actually a series of books – that deal with the rise of eldritch horrors from the “Cthulhu Mythos,” their efforts to wipe humanity off the Earth, and mankinds attempts to fight back. As most of my projects go, this one sputtered out due to an inability to find much interest among publishers and life introducing other challenges such as a need to make money, health concerns, a major move, a need to make money, the sudden appearance of not one but two aerospace history book contracts and a need to make money.

But the events of 2020 make it clear that we really are living in a world of Lovecraftian madness. I’ve an idea for another piece to be set in the WWTDO plotline; rather than a story per se, it would be an inter-office memo attempting to explain the 20th and early 21st centuries by way of the influence of Cthulhu’s influence driving people mad. Because BEHOLD:

KENOSHA MAYHEM RAW — Marxists with assault weapons stop armored sheriff’s vehicle…

This is Lovecraft’s world; we’re just living in it.

“The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.”