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Scream for Jeeves: A Parody

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Picture if you will Bertie Wooster from the Bertie and Jeeves stories of Wodehouse, thrust into a series of horrible Lovecraft situations. He responds with a series of hilarious non sequiturs and light-headed nitwit-isms, even when conversing with the locquacious and flowery characters of Lovecraft's most overwrought dialogue.

The humor of these three tales is all in the contrast between the styles of the two masters, who must have been contemporaries of a sort, but who hailed from such different worlds. Peter Cannon takes this running joke about as far as it can go, borrowing liberally from the plots of several of HPL's most famous chillers, while Bertie supplies all the jokes from soup to nuts.

This wonderful book is a collection of three short stories, in which the author takes the befuddled Bertie Wooster, and drops him and the inimitable Jeeves into the world of H.P. Lovecraft! Hilarity ensues as Bertie drifts cluelessly along from adventure to hair-raising adventure with a cheery "What ho!"

This is a very funny book, one that should not be missed by any fan of Jeeves and Wooster. I think that the author does an excellent job of reproducing a believable Jeeves and Wooster, making the story feel like it was written by the great P.G. Wodehouse himself. My favorite line has to be Bertie's statement that, "Life is a hideous thingummy." I loved this book, and give it my highest recommendations!

Truly a hilarious mixing of early 1900's British comedic aristocracy and Lovecraft. Anyone who gets a kick out of the kind of upper-class twits that populate Monty Python's comedy will love to see how a famous example interacts with Lovecraft's mind blasting horrors. When it's take on Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is titled "The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie" and poor Captain Norris is constantly referred to as "Tubby", you know you're in for some true ripping yarns! Highly recommended humor for the fan of Lovecraft and British humor.

If I could, I would have given this fine effort ten stars. Bertie Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse's wonderful upper class twit, somehow becomes involved in the surrealistic universe of H.P. Lovecraft and the wise Jeeves pulls him out. Cannon could have played this strictly for cheap laughs, but no, he clearly and genuinely loves these characters and does all he can to make this an honest and truthful pastiche. I truely love this book (or, at 89 pages, booklet) and only wish I could buy it in hard cover because my copy is falling apart from constant re-reading.