![]() Ellie is a local, selling moonshine brewed a local woman to pay for her brother to go to college and medical school. ![]() The story is set on Long Island in the 1920s or possibly early 1930s (seriously, would it have killed Tanzer to set a definite date? I hate having to guess!). The result is an offbeat variation on Lovecraftian horror (the horror comes off primarily as variation on Color Out of Space though I don’t know that was actually Tanzer’s inspiration) it’s also a good example of how to write women in a historical fantasy who don’t conform to their era’s rules. ![]() So if Lovecraftian cults ever launched a crusade, what would it look like? In CREATURES OF WANT AND RUIN by Molly Tanzer, the answer - logical given Lovecraft’s own loathing of immigrants - is that they’d preach against immigrants ruining society with their filthy unAmerican immigrant ways (yes, this could also be seen as relevant to current politics). ![]()
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