Don't let a little thing like the Christmas and New Year holidays get between you and the mind-shattering secrets of nameless horrors from the sunless abyss of eternity. Or, to put it another way, there's still just over a week to reserve your copy of Whispers Beyond The Stars, the modern Cthulhu Mythos gamebook that I've written with Paweł Dziemski.
There's a new review on Facebook which gets right to the heart of what Paweł and I are trying to achieve with this book: "It pays homage to Lovecraft without ever lapsing into dusty pastiche. Instead, we get modern Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama."
He goes on to say, "The true spirit of cosmic horror is here in full: that creeping insignificance, the suspicion that the universe is enormous and indifferent, and the gnawing sense that humans, when handed forbidden knowledge, behave exactly like a toddler given access to permanent markers and a freshly painted wall."
The review concludes: "If you enjoy adventures where your decisions matter—and occasionally haunt you—this gamebook deserves a place on your shelf, somewhere high up where the tentacles can’t quite reach."
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