You might be wondering about the purpose of Spirits of Yuggoth and how it came to be. First, for me, the true spirit of Yuggoth is that feeling of wonder that I had when I read H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time for the first time. The world that Lovecraft builds is a coherent and universal view of the past, present and future of our world, the universe and other nether regions adjacent to our own. As such, it provides us with a vast playground for speculation where we might find both the wonderful and the horrific.
When my oldest son challenged me to write a horror novel while we were discussing some of the things I did with role playing games in my youth and what I would be doing once I started to wind down my work and retire, the conversation inspired me to start thinking about writing. I had done a lot of technical writing during my long years as a software developer, but it had been years since I wrote anything vaguely resembling fiction. After some reflection, I decided, as an exercise, that I would write a horror novel.
You're probably thinking that this was crazy and perhaps presumptuous. After all, writing a novel is work. It is very hard work that requires rigor and perseverance. It also requires inspiration and imagination. After years of technical work, rigor and perseverance are something that I have learned, but inspiration and imagination is another story. I am less convinced about that aspect, but now it's too late.
I hope to release my first book, Memories of Yuggoth before Christmas 2025. I will be talking about that book here, but also of the other projects that I am working on. The first book was an interesting learning experience. I am not an author and I am not literary, but I am something of a storyteller and I hope that will be enough to ensure this is not a disaster.
So spirits of Yuggoth are those Lovecraftian notions that spiral around our heads, traversing the nether regions and haunting us like ghosts.
More to come.
