Occultober Day 9 Riders Where There Are No Roads by David Bain

Occultober Day 9 Riders Where There Are No Roads by David Bain

H.P. Lovecraft changed the horror/sf genres with his introduction of Cthulhu in the early twentieth century. Cthulhu is one of a number of ancient extra-dimensional entities so horrific and incomprehensible to the human mind that simply seeing one can drive a person insane. Humans are like insignificant gnats to these creatures who are constantly trying to work their way back into our universe with the help of crazed fools. Many authors have honored Lovecraft by building elaborate stories grounded in the Cthulhu mythos. David Bain’s Riders Where There Are No Roads is one of the latest tributes and unique to my experience because it’s set in a version of the old west.

 

Six men and one woman—mostly gunfighters, bandits, and a buffalo soldier—have found themselves in an afterlife that’s very different from what Sunday school led us to expect. It’s a huge western desolate landscape where a demon who is usually in human form and a group of his followers hunt down people who accidentally open gates into this world so they can torture them and turn them into demons like themselves. These men and women have decided to risk their own existence to try and put a stop to it—and it’s quite a wild and weird ride. This book is unquestionably as western as they come and yet—not anything like the wild west we’re used to reading about. I think Lovecraft would be proud to see he inspired this series.

 

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