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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780972854528
ISBN number: 0972854525
Label: Mythos Books LLC
Manufacturer: Mythos Books LLC
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: October 01, 2005
Publishing house: Mythos Books LLC
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UNHOLY DIMENSIONS collects 27 exursions into realms Lovecraftian and H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, through the mind's eye of Jeffrey Thomas, author of PUNKTOWN and TERROR INCOGNITA.
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All us "mythos" fans know that a lot of writers in the field aren't very good. That's why it is so gratiffying to discover Jeffery Thomas. Bad news: Now I have to go and collect everything Thomas has ever written. That'll cost a few bucks.
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Not a bad Lovecraft spin off. I'm not an expert on all of the newer Lovecraft fiction out there, but this little book is pretty good. The other reviews summed up everything, just putting my 2 cents in.
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Jeffrey Thomas is the renowed author of the imaginative Punktown but he is an equally imaginative if not wholly original purveyor of Lovecraftean fiction.I'm not an enthusiast of contemporary mythos fiction but Jeffrey`s stories are well crafted, polished and highly entertaining.The poems didn't do much for me but all the stories, even the lesser ones, are enjoyable.My personal favorites are the Punktownean/Lovecraftean/Derlethean
stories presenting investigator John Bell (Bones of the Old Ones, Avatars of the Old Ones),The Cellar Gods, The Corpse Candles, Out of the Belly of Sheol and Servitors.
Writers like Jeffrey Thomas and W.H Pugmire proves that is possible to write contemporary mythos fiction in polished, simple, accessible, even poetic prose (in the case of Pugmire) with a modern sensibility.
Recomended for those who enjoy well written weird fiction.
UNHOLY DIMENSIONS:
Bones of the Old Ones ================== *****
Avatars of the Old Ones ================ ****1/2
Young of the Old Ones ================== ***1/2
Red Glass ============================== ****
I Married a Shoggoth =================== ****
The Ice Ship =========================== -
The Servitor =========================== ****
The Conglomerate ======================= ***1/2
Book Worm ============================== ****
Through Obscure Glass ================== ****
Servitors ============================== ****1/2
The Doom in the Room =================== ***1/2
Out of the Belly of Sheol ============== ****1/2
Ascending to Hell ====================== -
The Third Eye ========================== ****
The Face of Baphomet =================== ****
Cells ================================== ****
The House on the Plain ================= ***
The Fourth Utterance =================== ****
The Writing on the Wall ================ **/2
The Corpse Candles ===================== ****1/2
Yoo-Hoo Cthulhu ======================== -
Lost Soul ============================== ***1/2
Pazuzu's Children ====================== ****
What Washes Ashore ===================== ****
The Cellar Gods ======================== *****
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The enterprising small press Mythos Books has finally been releasing some titles that we have all been waiting on for some time (And some we had no idea were pending release; their website is extremely user unfriendly compared to Elder Signs Press, Hippocampus Press or Golden Gryphon Press. On the other hand Wildside Press and Pagan Publishing won't win any prizes for keeping up to date either...), like The Taint of Lovecraft and The Tales of Inspector LeGrasse. Coming soon is a highly anticipated collection by Walter deBill, The Black Sutra. I feel like I was waiting on Unholy Dimensions for more than a year.
Jeffrey Thomas is a highly respected horror and science fiction author who certainly needs no introduction from me (all us reviewers write this before we introduce someone who needs no introduction...). He is the creator of Punktown, a wild, weird and wonderful city on the alien planet of Oasis. Originally named Paxton, it has been renamed Punktown by its inhabitants, a mixture of humans living side by side with other almost human races, and other completely inhuman species. Full of crime, drugs, desperation, poverty and intrigue, Punktown is a violent place. So far the Punktown saga may be read in Thomas's collection Punktown, the collection he edited Punktown:Third Eye (guest authors set stories in Thomas' world), Thomas' novel Monstrocity (which is an entirely mythosian outing; Punktown's human-like races have their own traditions of grimoires, and names for the mythos entities and the Elder Gods), and new collection by Jeffrey Thomas and his brother Scott, Punktown: Shades of Grey. This last is the best and edgiest Punktown collection so far!
Although Thomas is best known for the Punktown series, HPL's mythos was influential for him and he has often applied his highly polished gifts to mythos stories. The bulk of these are now assembled in this trade paperback from Mythos Books. All of these titles have seen the light of print before, except The Young of the Old Ones and What Washes Ashore, newly written for this book. However, most of these were in periodicals like Deathrealms, Cthulhu Codex and Midnight Shambler, so only an assiduous mythos collector like James Ambuehl would already have them. In fact, as I mostly collect books, I only had The Cellar Gods from 1999's New Mythos Legends.
Here are the contents, although not in the order they appear in the book:
THE BONES OF THE OLD ONES
THE AVATARS OF THE OLD ONES
THE YOUNG OF THE OLD ONES
BOOK WORM
ASCENDING TO HELL
THE ICE SHIP
YOO-HOO, CTHULHU
THROUGH OBSCURE GLASS
THE HOUSE ON THE PLAIN
THE BOARDED WINDOW
LOST SOUL
THE SERVITORS
SERVILE
I MARRIED A SHOGGOTH
THE THIRD EYE
RED GLASS
CELLS
CONGLOMERATE
THE DOOM IN THE ROOM
THE FACE OF BAPHOMET
PAZUZU'S CHILDREN
THE CELLAR GODS
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
CORPSE CANDLES
WHAT WASHES ASHORE
OUT OF THE BELLY OF SHEOL
THE FOURTH UTTERANCE
Some housekeeping: This is a Trade Paperback with 267 pages. It's all fiction; no author's notes or introductions. The cover is by Jamie Oberschlake, and it is highly effective, showing a Cthulhu-like entity crouched over an ancient tome. There is more interior art by Peter Worthy that didn't do too much for me. The price is $20 list but it is heavily discounted to $13.60 by Amazon, and available for free supersaver shipping although at a downgraded rate. Thomas continues the Lovecraft Circle tradition of mentioning other mythos authors he likes in some of his stories. For example, one of the cultist victims in The Bones of the Old Ones is Willy Pugmire, some action in The Avatars of the Old Ones takes place in the Ambuehl Building and a note from S. Sargent appears in Corpse Candles. Thomas also pays homage directly to W. Pugmire by setting a story Through Obscure Glass in Pugmire's Sesqua Valley. This was a daring story, I think, because no one can really write with Pugmire's sensuous prose or make the visceral Sesqua Valley come alive like he can. The trilogy of stories that opens the books is set in the Punktown universe; The Bones of the Old Ones actually takes place in Punktown. HPL names like Ward and Poe names like Pym appear in some stories. Much of Thomas' approach to the mythos (or Yog Sothothery if you prefer) is very conventional, the Great Old Ones were cast into imprisonment by the Elder Gods. The Elder Sign has unusual potency against them and their servitors. The grimoires are the usual suspects, except for Thomas' own The Book of Awe and The Metal Book.
My summary is that I highly recommend this collection. I think, however, that the stories written later, like What Washes Ashore are more deftly written than the earlier ones (well, our favorite authors are always honing their craft, ... Read More
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This collection of stories is not only some of the best that Jeffrey Thomas has ever written, but also some of the creepiest Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos stories ever told. Twenty-seven tales in all, including some poems and a short but silly piece called 'Yoo Hoo Cthulhu', most of these tales will leave you shivering in mortal terror and delight.
Each piece has either saturation or skitterings eluding to the Old Ones, Cthulhu. Some settings are in my favorite Thomas-created place called Punktown, some on alien planets, some in the future, some in the past, and some in the deserts of modern wars. Some are genteel and others are grotesque, there is such a huge sampling of Thomas's expert writing capabilities that this is a MUST HAVE for any fan of Jeffrey Thomas. If you are not a fan, read this collection and you will soon become one.
I can't cover all the stories, but some of my favorites would be the very first three stories, tied loosely together via police and then ex-police John Bell, chasing after what he at very first could not believe in. 'The Bones Of The Old Ones', 'The Avatars Of The Old Ones', and 'The Young Of The Old Ones'.
Masculine fantasies are revealed in the almost playful 'I Married A Shoggoth', 'The Servitors' is a nicely done piece on the mundane workers who must clean and care for those slumbering beasts, 'Out Of The Belly Of Sheol' is a shivering tale of Jonah, closely associated with the biblical tale but Jonah is swallowed by an Old One instead, and meets a madman inside the bowels of the beast, 'Cells' is a poetic tale of love that transcends all dimensions and types of sickly life forms, 'The House On The Plain' is a futuristic, mystical tale, and the "Anne Frank" type tale of 'The Cellar Gods' was wonderful to read.
I have only named a few, but will mention that there is not one bad story in this entire collection. When Jeffrey Thomas takes on Cthulhu, it is bound to end up with the absolute best of squishy, crunchy, bloody treats to sample. Thomas's prose is precise, and his imagination superbly twisted and contorted enough to show us the dark imaginings that we horror aficionados crave like cookies. Blood cookies with the crunchy brain coating on them.
'Unholy Dimensions' is definitely worth the price, a bargain actually considering some of Thomas's work can be a bit rare and hard to find. Be sure to grab up a copy of this delicious delicacy. Enjoy!
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