Emrys’s characters are more openly comfortable with the supernatural than Lovecraft’s horror-struck mortals, and her sensitive comparisons of Aphra’s experience to those of other confined and displaced peoples make the novel historically relevant and resonant. Ruthanna Emrys is an American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for The Innsmouth Legacy series: The Litany of Earth, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. Emrys elevates her story above traditional tales of Cold War paranoia by making Aphra’s reacquaintance with Innsmouth culture her introduction to a personal heritage that she had been blocked from accessing. Spector hopes to determine whether prying Russian agents may have learned the secret of magically forcing their minds into the bodies of American politicians and scientists. It’s 1948, and Aphra and Caleb Marsh, descendents of the amphibious Innsmouth folk imprisoned in the aftermath of Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” are tapped by FBI agent Ron Spector to study Innsmouth artifacts now stored at the Miskatonic University library in Arkham, Mass. Lovecraft, this inventive dark fantasy crossbreeds the cosmic horrors of the Cthulhu mythos with the espionage escapades of a Cold War thriller. The sun is one of trillions where life flowers, and wants to live, and dies. Earth is nothinga tiny world that will die with its sun.

But man is nothinga fraction of the life that will walk the Earth. Lovecraft Reread: Reading the Weird: Ashes and Entropy, edited by Robert S. It was a great conversation with a wide range of topics and inspirations. We discuss her Innsmouth Legacy series, Winter Tide, Deep Roots, and The Litany of Earth. Marbled with references to the fiction of H.P. Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide 10 likes Like All of man’s other religions place him at the center of creation. In this (belated) episode, Seth and Jon talk with author Ruthanna Emrys.

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