Occultober Day 13 The Trellborg Monstrosities by John Houlihan

Occultober Day 13 The Trellborg Monstrosities by John Houlihan

Things Man Was Not Meant to Know return for the thirteenth day of Occultober as I feature a novel H.P. Lovecraft fans are going to want to read.

 

Toward the end of World War II, British intelligence learns that the Nazis are messing with Eldritch powers somewhere in remote Norway. Nazis make an excellent villain in these sorts of powers because, let’s face it, they are an example of the human equivalent of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.

 

Fearing that whatever the Nazis were up to could impact the war (which is finally moving in the Allies’ direction), the British send a team in with a civilian expert to eliminate the threat. The novel is a first-person account by the major who led the mission and we watch him slowly come to grips with the fact that the world has supernatural elements in it.

 

On one level, the novel reads like any WW2 covert operations story. The team has to infiltrate enemy held territory in great secrecy, and the occupying Nazi troops are a tremendous threat. But on another level, there is this growing understanding that things are not right and not normal, and when they finally learn what’s going on the novel pops into high gear as the British soldiers desperately try to stop the Nazis from releasing a force that could turn the tide of the war. It’s exciting from beginning to end, and the feel of the book is very much as if Lovecraft was writing it himself.

 

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