Goodreads asked Jason J. McCuiston:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jason J. McCuiston I've had the idea, or the kernel of an idea, for Servants of the Horned God rolling around in my head for nearly twenty years. When I was in college, I saw the movie adaptation of Umberto Echo's The Name of the Rose with Sean Connery, and I loved the idea of having a Sherlock Holmes type of character investigating things in the Middle Ages. Of course, me being me, he would have to be investigating Lovecraftian horrors in the shadows. My initial thought was to make him a bookish introvert paired with a hard-living Crusader knight discovering eldritch secrets in the Holy Land, but as finally got down to do the research and put the book together, I was inspired by what was actually going on in England and Normandy during the First Crusade, and Godric and Robert's relationship just sort of took shape from there.

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