Cthulhu Resurgent (Cthulhu: Harrison Peel #2) 2.5Stars

 

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Title: Cthulhu Resurgent
Series: Cthulhu: Harrison Peel #2
Editor: David Conyers
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Short Story Collection
Pages: 262
Words: 108K

This is where I get off the Harrison Peel train. Once again, he goes through some mind breaking experiences (his fiance is killed in front of his eyes by a shoggoth masquerading as a human) and while not shrugging it off, pretty much does shrug it off. He should have been left a mindless, gibbering wreck. Instead, he just soldiers on. Usually, that’s what I want. But as I discussed in the review for the first book (Cthulhu Reloaded), that is NOT what I want, or any true fan wants, when it comes to Cosmic Horror. Conyers continues to snub his nose at convention, so I say “phooiey” to him!

Not a very good start to my reading month, now is it?

★★✬☆☆

Table of Contents & From the Publisher:

• "The Spiraling Worm" (2007) (by David Conyers and John Sunseri)

• "The Road to Afghanistan" (2013)

• "The Eye of Infinity" (2014)

• "The Temporal Deception" (2015) (by David Conyers and C. J. Henderson)

• "The Gravity Museum" (2021)

Humans are a mistake. The laws of physics prove it.

Army intelligence officer Major Harrison Peel has spent a lifetime fighting eldritch horrors, constantly clawing through the veil of reality ready to annihilate our world. But how do you win the war when these alien gods — and not terrestrial life — are the true nature of reality? In Antarctica, a new threat emerges. Shape-shifting aliens called Shoggoths that can mimic people and integrate into human society, who are manipulating us from within. Then Peel discovers their true intensions… If Peel can’t defeat these Shoggoths abominations, they won’t just destroy us, but enslave humanity into a billion years of servitude…

• All of My “Cthulhu Anthology” Reviews