Occultober Day 10: Terminus by Peter Clines

Occultober Day 10: Terminus by Peter Clines

H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu keeps popping up in more and more works today, but few people have thought through the concept and modernized it as well as author, Peter Clines. Cthulhu or Cthulhu-like beings threaten in many of his novels, but in Terminus he gives us a full-blown invasion of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and it is everything you would expect of such a horror.

 

What puts it over the top, however, is that Clines has given substantial thought to how the Cthulhu-esq creatures could survive depopulating planets. In other words, why haven’t creatures this powerful already eaten the entire planet. And his answer is…they have. And they’re getting ready to do it again.

 

While the end of the world plays out, heroes and villains struggle to either keep the monster away or bring it here (because obviously life will be so much better after there isn’t any left on the planet—yes it’s crazy but you would have to be crazy to want Cthulhu to come to town). Throw in some mad-scientist-style science and a great cast of characters and you have a novel that I think H.P. Lovecraft would have been proud of. This novel does for the Cthulhu subgenre what Clines’ Dead Moon did for the zombie apocalypse—gave it a totally new and interesting spin. If you like stories about Things Man Was Not Meant to Know, you’re going to love Terminus.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Terminus/dp/B0...