The Transition of Titus Crow

A pitiful investigator of eldritch horror returns for a sequel in which he gains a TARDIS, fights pterosaurs, is rebuilt as a cyborg, lasers a god, befriends dragons, and . . .

I have the weirdest literary boner right now.

I once played in a Call of Cthulhu game at a local gaming store. We had three players and the Schmuck. We wanted to get rid of the Schmuck so badly, we hatched an insane plan. Knowing that the Schmuck was a Lovecraftian purist, we went crazy for one game. By the end of it, we were feeding a magic wand (given to us by Sailor Moon) Twinkies to make it turn into a Star Wars ship to escape the outer god Azathoth. The Schmuck left during the argument over whether a Y-Wing or an X-Wing has a better hyperdrive. We promptly show more restarted the game the moment he left the store and pretended that never happened.

This book is what would've happened if we continued that game up to eleven.

Titus Crow was a poor, poor protagonist. In The Burrowers Beneath, he mostly eats chicken lunches and is begged by monsters to leave them alone. In this book, we learn how his subsequent adventures becomes the stuff of crazed middle school fanfic.

If you want to watch someone take the ever-loving piss out of the Cthulhu Mythos, go ahead. I had a spectacular time. Then again, I love bizarre bad movies, having owned 80 DVDs off of http://badmovies.org I love media that is, to quote Roger Ebert, "cheerfully berserk."

Seriously, look at that first sentence up there. By the end of that statement, you should know if you want to read this or not.

There's two sequels. I can't wait. show less

Diez años después de los hechos acontecidos en ‘The Burrowers Beneath’, Henri Laurent de Marigny es encontrado cuando se le daba por muerto. De Marigny no recuerda nada de lo sucedido en estos diez años, pero con la visita del profesor Wilmarth, de la Fundación que lleva su nombre, comienza a recordar. Resulta que tanto él como Crow emprendieron la huida en un reloj (!) capaz de viajar en el tiempo y el espacio. Ahora Henri recibe extraños sueños de Crow pidiendo su ayuda para regresar. Y el resto de la novela es eso, los viajes de que hizo crow por el espacio-tiempo.

Si bien ‘The Burrowers Beneath’ (‘Los que acechan en el abismo’ en la traducción española) fue un magnífico pastiche lovecraftiano, esta continuación show more se parece más a unos viajes de Gulliver bastante aburridos. show less

This was really just one long romp through space and time. Unfortunately there was really only one character through most of it so almost no dialogue or characterization. Some cool ideas and scenes, but really not my favorite kind of story.

Another re-read of one of my favorite authors. Still holds up IMO.