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The Weird Company: The Secret History of H. P. Lovecraft's Twentieth Century Audible – Unabridged

Peter Rawlik (Author), Oliver Wyman (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
4.7 out of 5 stars 19 customer reviews
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5.0 out of 5 starsOh this was fun.
By Vulpine on September 26, 2014
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
Finished 'The Weird Company' last night, and it was exactly what I expected
and wanted. Pete Rawlik takes the stories of HPL, and fills in spots,
so you see more behind the assorted bunch of people in the Lovecraft canon.
If you've ever read 'Anno Dracula' or 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'
this is in the same idea. He goes places I'd not have thought of, but
even with the more out there stuff, it fits and makes logical sense. He
also name drops modern authors in the stories, so it's a fun game of
'spot the reference' that tickles my fan-being fancy. So, if you like
Lovecraft, and love in jokes and references, get 'The Weird Company'.
I'd also suggest reading the previous book, 'Reanimators' as it gives
the story of one of the main characters. 5 out of 5 writhing pseudopods.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Wonderful Sequel and Prequel! Amazing Cthulhu Mythos novel!
By R. Lai on September 28, 2014
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This is more brilliantly conceived than the author's earlier REANIMATORS! A group of Lovecraft's characters join forces on a nightmarish journey that surprisingly turns into a prequel to one of the classic story of Science Fiction. There is an ingenious and justifiable reinterpretation of a Lovecraft story that credibly transforms a villain into a hero! Also one section presents a nightmarish version of one of Lovecraft's villains that is as frightening as the best works of Thomas Harris and Joe Pulver.. One of the best Cthulhu Mythos novels ever written!
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3.0 out of 5 starsH.P. Lovecraft's League of Extraordinary Outsiders vs The Shoggoth Menace!
By T. Dominy on May 19, 2015
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The overall idea is a pretty great one: HP Lovecraft's League of Extraordinary Beings vs The Shoggoth Menace. Tying together too many loose ends left by Lovecraft to easily keep track of, "The Weird Company" sets the stage for the "Mythos Resistance Forces" to counter looming cosmic horrors, be they Elder Beings, shoggoths, Hounds, the Yithians, or the psychotic and undead Re-Animated. I fear saying anymore might venture into spoilers, but all the traditional Lovecraftian locales are visited and/or mentioned, as well as pretty much all the major players and sides.

Mr. Rawlik is obviously a Lovecraft scholar and has done a great deal of research to flesh out this novel. I've read pretty much everything HP wrote and even I had to Google some of the more obscure characters but they were there. Several more prominent characters were mentioned but did not appear directly, leading me to believe that there is a series building here (hopefully).

Though the existential angst and noir tropes are all present, this is really more of a dark adventure story in the vein of Robert Howard, or even Doyle, than HPL. Weird, violent (at times grisly) and almost totally devoid of any human intimacy whatsoever, but still: there is quite a bit of humor and the 'heroes' of the Company can at least affect some change against the 'villains.' This group isn't Lovecraft's typical 'victims' as they have all already had their initial run-ins with the Mythos and survived. Now they must band together against the looming menace of the torpid but awakened shoggoths.

Sounds like I liked it, right? Well, I did. So why only three stars? Eh, I'd give it 3.5 if that was an option.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Fun, Horrific, Eldritch Adventure!
By Brian Fatah Steele on February 3, 2015
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Some people are purists when it comes to Lovecraft. I’m not one of them. I love all the crazy additions to the Cthulhu Mythos, love all the extra side stories, the new characters and monsters, backstories to Outer Gods, children that suddenly popped up, all of it. (C’mon, I have a giant stuffed Cthulhu.) So when I read THE WEIRD COMPANY, I pretty much had a grin on my face the entire time.

Imagine “Extraordinary League Of Gentlemen,” but for the Mythos gang. That’s basically what you’ve got going on here. Through a series of journal entries and letters, characters we’ve come to know through Lovecraft’s work are reassembled. Not only do we discover what has occurred after their own particular tales were told, but in some cases, what happened before. It’s a fascinating story, these players all coming together in the now government controlled city of Innsmouth, especially as you come to realize who some of them are. Secrets are revealed, and from there the team is off to Antarctica, The Mountains Of Madness awoken in earlier events by a clueless Miskatonic University team. More revelations and more individuals get involved. The fate of the world is at stake, and it’s up to The Weird Company (not heroes but monsters) to save it: a witch, a changeling, a mad scientist, and a poet trapped in the form of a beast.

Rawlik’s book is not only brilliant, but it’s loads of fun. It name-drops characters, has others interact like you always hoped they would, takes surprise turns, stays wonderfully atmospheric, yet can gets downright bloody. Some people might balk at what he’s done with some of the charters (I can think of one in particular), but you can tell this was a labor of love. The book is a big fun, horrific, eldritch adventure, and fans of the Mythos should go along.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe more you know your Lovecraft, the better you'll like Rawlik's work
By Amazon Customer on October 13, 2014
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The Weird Company begins in 1937. Dr. Wingate Peaslee is a dissenting voice about a secret military operation. He files a report as the minority opinion. The report is comprised mostly of eyewitness accounts of a series of relevant events, written by Robert Olmstead, the man whose account of a visit to a coastal town in Massachusetts triggered the military intervention in Innsmouth. But now Olmstead, having destroyed Innsmouth only to discover the ramifications of his actions, seeks penance in the company of monsters. To save the world, Olmstead must join forces with a motley band of characters familiar to Lovecraft readers. This Weird company must battle ancient beings inadvertently unleashed by Miskatonic University’s ill-fated Pabodie-Lake expedition to Antarctica upon an unsuspecting world.

Rawlik’s novels are based on the premise that Lovecraft’s stories are not stand-alone tales, but rather, that all of his works took place in a shared universe. This means that although Lovecraft suggests no relationship between “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” other than Arkham as a geographic point of reference, Rawlik weaves those events together, with a little “The Thing on the Doorstep” and “Through the Gates of the Silver Key” added for good measure. With the return of Dr. Hartwell, the protagonist from his first book Reanimators, Rawlik created an underlying interconnectivity to all of the events created by Lovecraft. And then, Rawlik branches out; under his skilled pen, John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” suddenly becomes an obvious as a sequel to “At the Mountains of Madness.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsA true pleasure!

This is a true pleasure. I was already a fan of Peter Rawlik's work, but this book was a step to even greater heights of skill and suspense. Read more

Published 3 months ago by frankschildiner
5.0 out of 5 starsSearchers after horror haunt strange far places... On the roads they...

Being a fan of the mythos crafted by Howard P. Lovecraft I am always on the look for a book that calls to the part of me that yearns to read about things that are not quite... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Anton Kromoff
5.0 out of 5 starsA Great Novel Within the Lovecraftian Universe

I just finished Pete Rawlik’s second novel The Weird Company and my one word review would be “FUN.” It was a real blast. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Fred S. Lubnow
4.0 out of 5 starsAt the Mountains of Madness : Round Two

This is quite a nice book and does amuse a good deal of the time. Plot is surprisingly good and incorporates many of HPLs critters. Read more

Published 8 months ago by James Boyd
4.0 out of 5 starsthis captures some of the best elements of Lovecraft

While there are certainly hiccups, this captures some of the best elements of Lovecraft, including some of his wordier prose, and then expands the mythos into a coherent metaplot. Read more

Published 8 months ago by William Cheyne James
5.0 out of 5 starsI can’t recommend this book highly enough.

This review is based on a pdf, supplied by the author.

This is the second book in Pete Rawlik’s ‘The Secret History of H.P. Lovecraft’s Twentieth Century’ trilogy. Read more

Published 10 months ago by David L. Brzeski
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book and service

Published 14 months ago by Thomas1791
5.0 out of 5 starsRawlik's "Weird Company" is an excellent follow-up to his first book...

Rawlik's "Weird Company" is an excellent follow-up to his first book "Reanimators". Imagine a cross between Alan Moore's "A League of Extraordinary... Read more

Published 15 months ago by Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsReview of _The Weird Company_

To start off: if you have yet to read _Reanimators_ by Mr. Rawlik, go do so before picking up this book. Or don’t. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Phillip J. Johnson
5.0 out of 5 starsRawlik continues his amazing stitchwork of Lovecraftian events and...

Pete Rawlik has done it again....but oh is it so much more. Being a big fan of Reanimators I was looking forward to this sequel immensely. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Todd M. Chicoine

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