Beyond the Chaos Gate: Lovecraftian Horror

De: Quentin Ravensbane

Narrado por: Larry Gorman

A novel in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft

Vast and Chaotic Demon Gods in dark worlds hunger to enter our Reality. Their coming will mean our extinction.

What if you were forced to believe in the unbelievable?

The fabric of reality is thin in some places.

The FBI assigned agent Garret to investigate the strange murder of an entire family in the small town of Holden. That case was just the beginning. Ian Crane lived in Holden, and he had been psychically sensitive all of his life.

All Garret wished to do was to solve the case, and get the bad guys, but the Killers were faceless, and they were committing the murders as part of some insane ritual. Ian felt a darkness coming, and he knew that it would be the end of all things if they could not stop it.

Garret knew that to catch a killer, you have to think like a killer, but nothing about the motivations for the crimes made any human sense, and strange things were starting to happen everywhere. Ian felt a vast mind coming closer, and he knew that the closer it came, the more the world would change.

Garret did not believe in the supernatural, but the world was changing around him in dark and twisted ways. He knew that the Killers believed in a coming dark god. Could he hold onto his humanity in the inhuman world they were bringing?

Somehow, Garret, Ian, and four of their friends must find a way to defeat the coming Shadow and its disciples, before our fragile world was transformed into an alien hell.

©2017 Quentin Ravensbane (P)2018 Quentin Ravensbane

My First Taste of Cosmic Horror

Very intense story with an ending I was not ready for. The narration was solid except for a few characters, who had the same inflections. Other than that it was an amazing listening experience. I really enjoyed it!

Is there a single contraction in this book

The dialogue is painfull. It is written like a 10th grader trying to fill a page requirement for an essay.
Characters don’t use contractions when they talk.
“I am so very sorry that you are...” and statements to that effect are every line of dialogue spoken.
I can’t decide if the narrator makes it worse by his distinct and spaced pronunciation of each word and the pause in-between.
At three quarters through I’m not sure I can finish.

okayish

Not great cosmic horror. The characters feel bland and unreal. You find it hard to care if something happens to a main character and the feeling of horror is mostly absent for the majority of the book. The ending however was great in my opinion. Good performance as well.

Had me in the first half ngl

I was frustrated by the characters and the time spent on certain things. I was imagining an ending I wouldn't get that would justify the choices after the fact. Turns out I got the ending I wanted. Very nice food for thought.

Weird word usages. Odd inflections

Not a horrible story but it doesn’t flow well phonetically. Too many “we will go” instead of “we’ll go”. No one actually speaks like that. It caused the dialog to come off as robotic.