![]() ![]() All of the stories are told in the same voice, and the storytellers themselves are painted nearly identically, as good-natured, frightened young men who are unwilling players in mankind’s struggle against a demonic tide. The four men’s stories, along with Carter’s, span nearly 100 years, but no dates are mentioned and there are instances of anachronism throughout. ![]() Even for the familiar reader, the time period is ambiguous. It only becomes clear in chapter three, with the mention of stagecoaches, that the book is set in the past-a reader unfamiliar with the genre might be confused. ![]() Most of the novel is spent recounting these tales, and Talley returns to the present only long enough to comment on the state of the storm. ![]() Each of the men, Jack, Daniel, William and Captain Jonathan Gray, has a tale to tell that’s related to the occult-and obliquely to the book Carter is charged to find. At this point, the novel’s linear story line is abandoned. When Carter arrives at a tavern in Anchorhead during a heavy winter storm, he joins a table of four men who seem, unnervingly, to be waiting for him. Four and a half suspenseful, frightening tales in one.Ĭarter Weston is a student at Miskatonic University-imagine Harvard’s dark sister-when his advisor charges him with a quest to find a powerful dark tome. ![]()
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