A Chemical Induced Dream

In my new book, Memories of Yuggoth there is a sequence when the hero breathes in a toxic gas and has a strange dream. The details of the location of a dream is from one of my own childhood memories and I had the opportunity to visit the location a few years ago.

When I was very young we lived in the appartement on the top floor. It has changed since, but very little. Before there was a green picket fence around the building, where we now see the grass. A green wooden staircase led up to the small veranda and we could access the appartement via that door. There was a guard rail of some kind around the veranda. Of course there was that ladder going up to the roof that I mention in the book.

The third window from the front was the window to the our bedroom. I would look out of that window at the hotel across the alley. We can still see the electrical powerline and I suppose there is still a purple insulator where it connects to the wall. In my memory, the line came from a pole at the front of the build (not from the back) - who knows?

I may have climbed the ladder but I was definitely never on the roof.   

Memories of Yuggoth Available on Amazon

My new book, Memories of Yuggoth is now available on Amazon. I am really interested in any feedback you can provide so please don't hesitate to put a review here or directly at Amazon.

When I started writing this book I wanted to do something very Lovecraftian.  I was heavily influenced by The Case of Charles Dexter Ward as I see it is a story told in first person that captured the time and place it was written.  Obviously, this also has influences from The Whisperer in the Darkness as that is the place (for me) that Lovecraft really introduced the Mi-Go.  

There is a problem with the Mi-Go and Yuggoth in that it was written at a time before we had a good understanding of interplanetary travel and science.  Today, the idea of creatures flying through outer space seems ridiculous, but that is difficult to ignore this and maintain the spirit of the Lovecraftian alien beings.  I hope that I have resolved this issue while maintaining a strict observance of the universe created by HPL.

I wanted to have a story involving the Mi-Go because, while they are a formidable opponent, they are not so powerful that the hero can only survive by some crazy twist of fate (there are still crazy twists of fate necessary with the Mi-Go but they are less crazy than if we were going up against Cthulhu or Yog Sothoth).

I think I can say all this without giving away too much because Yuggoth is intimately associated with the Mi-Go and as the book is written in first person, the hero must survive at least long enough to write about his adventures.

So check the book and let me know what you think. 😁