Showing posts with label Tim Powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Powers. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

The Governor, by Tim Powers

[Anthology]
★★★★☆ Chilling, with Just the Right Twist

(Modern Fantasy Horror) When the old wizard dies in a car accident, his family gets together in his old house to try to find his talisman so they can have control over him before he reincarnates himself. (8,617 words; Time: 28m)

The Lovecraft book in the story is “The Outsiders and Others,” a 500-page collection of Lovecraft’s stories. It has been called “the beginning of serious specialist publishing of fantastic fiction in America.”