Cthulhu Armageddon by C.T. PhippsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
C. T. Phipps is a prolific author in multiple genres, but CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON is my first experience of his work. Thankfully, I now have many more of his books to read, including the sequel, THE TOWER OF ZHAAL. For any reader who loves or even just admires Lovecraft, or Post-Apocalyptic fiction, or Dystopiana, CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON is absolutely not to be missed.
CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON postulates New England AFTER the Great Old Ones have risen. Amazingly, they didn't arrive from Outer Space, but from underground. Scary! This is a couple of centuries in "our" future, and Arkham is now New Arkham, a more or less armed and guarded community surrounded by desert. Kingsport is a criminally active traders' town which practices (or allows) human slavery, gambling, and so forth. John Henry Booth is a soldier, descendant of soldiers, who is more and beyond what he seems and what he thinks he is. Two decades of soldiering in the wilderness have hardened him, estranged him from his psychic wife, and kept him away from daughter and son. He perseveres to save the remnant of humanity. When his squadron is killed at the Black Cathedral, and he discovers the cause is Dr. Alan Ward, John's former mentor, he sets out on a personal quest for vengeance (and to save humanity). In the process, he will begin to discover aspects of himself he could never have possibly imagined and now does not know how to cope with. Yet every single time he decides to end it all, his mission to save the human species reawakens and inspires him.
For readers well familiarized with Lovecraft's stories (or of the Mythos writers), this novel will be like "coming home," with a multiplicity of twists and turns. For those not aware of Lovecraft, this will still be a fascinating post-apocalyptic read with a lot of monstrous entities (otherworldly and human).
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