Our lady of darkness

185 pages

English language

Published July 30, 1977 by Berkley Pub. Corp. : distributed by Putnam.

ISBN:
978-0-399-11872-2
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3 stars (4 reviews)

Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building, to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window—and to find himself caught in a century-spanning curse that may have destroyed Clark Ashton Smith and Jack London.

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I was pretty excited with this book at the start. I actually managed to plod through seventy-percent of it, then just skimmed through until the end. The facts presented are relevant and interesting but I felt they were few and far in between. The atmosphere is there, the darkness, the little bits of paranoia. Maybe you'd need a lot of Lovecraft background in order to really appreciate this book or something. But all I got from it was lots of interesting tid-bits that did not really cohere into a whole.

There was something unnecessarily overdone with the sentences. Dropping arcane words did not add to the story. At least I know now what gibbous means. It's when the moon is only three-fourths full.

There are not a lot of memorable scenes. All I remember right now is the scene where the main character was in the hill and looking at …