Tales of the Mushroom People II: Call of Cthulhushroom

by David J. Keffer, Lynn N. Keffer, Ruth M. Keffer

Tales of the Mushroom People II: Call of Cthulhushroom is the second entry in a series of illustrated stories for children and adventurous adults. This Lovecraft-inspired volume recounts the arrival of an Elder God of the Mushroom People, Cthulhushroom, in the forest. The story follows a forest ghost who seeks to enlist the aid of various denizens dwelling within the woods in order to rid the forest of Cthulhushroom. Eventually, Poison Pie leads an army of mushroom people in a ferocious showdown with Cthulhushroom. The story is told with felt fingerpuppets and photographs from wild places in East Tennessee.

Length: Tales of the Mushroom People is 52 pages and contains 49 original artworks combining photography and fingerpuppets.

52 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2012

About the author

David J. Keffer was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He pursued a technical education earning a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. After a year as a post-doctoral scholar at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., he began his career as an engineering professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he remains today. He has published about 90 technical papers in archival journals.

Outside of engineering, David Keffer studied world literature and creative writing. Analytical articles on the works of Primo Levi and Kobo Abé were originally published in the Scriptorium of The Modern Word site. He created various reading aids to several classical Chinese novels. Over the past two decades, David Keffer has been active writing novels, poetry and stories. Several novels and illustrated stories have been published by the Poison Pie Publishing House.

David Keffer lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his wife, Lynn, and two children. As a family, they enjoy hiking through the local mountains and are always on the look out for poison pie and other ambivalent mushrooms that dot the landscape.

Reviews

[Ruth Keffer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is by my dad and is really great.

[David Keffer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tales of the Mushroom People II: Call of Cthulhushroom is available from the Poison Pie Publishing House in paperback format.