Servants of Chaos

I love this book because it's written in the first person, so you constantly are at the focus of the action and everything has an immediate feel to it. The setting is so creepy it's comfortable and fun to visit, if you know what I mean. You can curl up with the book and enjoy every page, the story is that riveting. Now I'm a big H.P. Lovecraft fan, but few writers can match him for spookiness, and reading Lovecraft today, you have to admit that his writing has a kind of dated feel to it (not that it's not great--it is--but it just feels a bit dated language-wise, like Poe, you could say). Well along comes Don D'Ammassa and he goes Lovecraft one step better: first of all the story is topnotch, and second he is a master of creating an entire new fictional weird world for your imagination to play around in, yet he does it with modern syntax and vocabulary. This book is a winner. Plus it is scary. What more could you ask for in a horror story?

Reads like a Lovecraftian role-playing game plays - fast, action-packed, clever and often rather funny.But one of the author's own paragraphs should pretty well enable you to determine whether this book will be your cup of tea:"Well, doctor, you see this bizarre cult was worshipping some superhuman creature from another dimension, and when I destroyed their temple two giant squids from another world destroyed the town. I managed to escape, but naturally I had to kill a man in the process, and now I need to rescue my friend from a man who is preparing to destroy the entire world...Sure. Not only would they believe me and let me go, they'd award me the Congressional Medal of Honor."If that little speech entertains you as much as it does me, this is the book for you.

Part mistry, part advanture and full horror, this is the book I recommand if you like first person naration in the great tradition of master Lovecraft himself. The atmosphere is great, language is simple,and the feeling of 'something is really wrong', all combined gives good book. So, if you like 'ancient horror', as it says on book itself, then go for it.