You are a case of the vapours

[sovay]

choco_frosh just came by in the nor'easter which had better be amending our drought and dropped off the attractively Manly Wade Wellman-sounding T. Kingfisher's What Stalks the Deep (2025) and a bagful of apples, including a Golden Russet and a Northern Spy. Digging into my book-stack was the best part of last night. I remain raggedly flat, but I really hope this person whom selkie brought to my attention gets their Leo Marks fic for Yuletide.

Comments

[alexxkay]

_What Stalks the Deep_ reminded me of the work of Ruthanna Emrys.

[sovay]

_What Stalks the Deep_ reminded me of the work of Ruthanna Emrys.

Nice. I just hear "Appalachian coal mine, eldritch phenomena" and Wellman is my first and natural referent.

[alexxkay]

Sure. I haven't read enough Wellman to have that reaction. The Emrys comparison comes from a shared moral position of "Just because this is a 'monstrous' Other doesn't mean that it is Obligate Evil."

[sovay]

The Emrys comparison comes from a shared moral position of "Just because this is a 'monstrous' Other doesn't mean that it is Obligate Evil."

That is a position I like.

[edit] Have you read Elizabeth Bear's "Shoggoths in Bloom" (2008)?