Lovecraft's cosmic horror in a book titled A Cosmology of Monsters - and sure enough, they're in there. You shouldn't be surprised to find elements of H. It's a book that haunts in a myriad ways, and its monsters are just as often palpably real as they are dredged from the depths of nightmares.

Dark shapes and stark terror overflow from The Wandering Dark and into Noah's family, where disappearances and dysfunction begin to seize the Turners in a fugue of phantasmagorical tragedy. (Imagine Welcome to Night Vale crammed inside Meow Wolf.) But there's more inside the warehouse known as The Wandering Dark than tricks and illusions - and there's more beyond it. When Noah is a boy, his father decides to build a haunted house, but one the likes of which the world has never seen - an immersive experience so frightening and seamless, it's like stepping into a shadow world of our own. Like Lev Grossman's The Magicians, only for horror instead of fantasy, the book examines the way we interact and fail to interact with each other, all bound together with genre delights that are mildly subverted even as they're adoringly celebrated.Įunice is the writer in her family, but Noah is Cosmology's focus and first-person narrator. It's a horror tale unafraid to tackle big issues of familial fealty, the architecture of fear, and the metaphysics of love, all while shocking the pants off the reader. That question lies at the heart of A Cosmology of Monsters, Shaun Hamill's debut novel.

'How long until the world hollows me out?' Eunice Turner asks her younger brother Noah in one of her many letters to him - most of them suicide notes. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Cosmology of Monsters Author Shaun Hamill

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