{"product_id":"2940044767843","title":"The Book of the Black Sun: Eldir","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of eight quartets from G. W. Thomas' The Book of the Black Sun, a collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction. Each quartet is made up of a micro fiction piece of 100 words or less, a flash story 300-500 words, a short story of around 2000 and a longer one of 3000-5000 words. This one features \"Cat House\", \"Helping Hand\", \"The Suit\" and \"There Was an Old Lady\". James Ambuehl wrote: \"There Was An Old Lady\" is a strange piece, owing an obvious, if unexpected debt, to Mother Goose nursery rhymes, while \"The Man Who Would Be King\" follows in the footsteps of the Maine Man -- successfully wedding King's themes to the Master, HPL's. Yet the WAY they emulate their models, especially in the former, is ingenious! Jim Lee wrote in Scavenger's Newsletter #175: \"...But the better Lovecraft pastiche here [\"There Was An Old Lady\"] is probably the one by G. W. Thomas, where a carny recruiter blunders into the \"hills west of Arkham\" and ends up dictating an audio cassette account of his nightmare adventure just before...well, before the expected (yet fairly effective) ending.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"G. W. Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081780838640,"sku":"2940044767843","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044767843_p0.jpg?v=1763966111","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044767843","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}