![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to the world of "Paperbacks from Hell" as Grady Hendrix puts it, out of print horror paperbacks that people charge about 10 times what they're worth and most libraries don't carry. I should probably just read something else of hers but at this point this seems so crazy that finding it seems like a challenge to me. It's supposedly one of her best so it wouldn't be out of print while the others are widely available right?Ģnd does anyone know where I can find it? A hard copy of the book is preferred but at this point I'd even go with an audiobook. ![]() It's just not my cup of tea.ġst off what is even going on here? I can find almost any other of her works through normal channels but not The Cipher. So I figure I'll buy it, I checked amazon and other online retailers as well as all my local bookstores and not a single hard copy of the book available for less than $150!! Granted ebooks are available but I've never been able to focus on a screen that long. So I checked around at my library and not a single library in the Chicagoland area has a copy. One needs to have read some Wodehouse and a lot of Lovecraft to get all the jokes, but fans will be tickled.I read a short story of hers and wanted to read more, I looked at recommendations and it seemed like one of her early works, The Cipher, was considered one of her best. But, quibbles aside, the book is clever and fun. Doyle, Cannon strains after connections among the three, to no apparent purpose. In the sometimes stilted closing essay on Lovecraft, Wodehouse and A.C. Wodecraft,'' that Bertie should be so familiar with the lore that in Lovecraft's stories is exotic and abstruse. Occasional anachronisms jar, and it seems inconsistent, even in the world of ``H.P.G. ``Something Foetid'' adds Lovecraft's Randolph Carter to ``Cool Air.'' ``The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie,'' mixing The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and ``Arthur Jermyn'' with ``The Music of Erich Zann,'' seems disjointed and the climax is muddled. ![]() The best is ``Cats, Rats, and Bertie Wooster,'' which sticks to ``The Rats in the Walls,'' although sometimes too many Lovecraft elements threaten to capsize this fragile craft. Bertie Wooster retells three Lovecraft tales in the manner of the ``Jeeves'' stories, and the humor comes from Bertie's cheery, puerile voice describing Lovecraft's horrors, interspersed with doses of Lovecraft's overwrought prose. Lovecraft by combining the two, and brevity, clean prose and a good ear make it work. ![]()
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