The delight in this novel is how Clines works these mythologies into the well-known plot line of Robinson Crusoe and the deftness with which he handles them. That is a mighty fine set of tentacles our titular hero is staring at so pensively on the cover and of course we all know what tentacles are shorthand for nowadays. Peter Clines is a craftsman, he knows there is no point in teasing out the surprises in The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe so he lays them out before you, right in the title and in the cover painting. So when The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe arrived in my inbox I cleared my schedule, loaded up several new mixes, and dove in eagerly. Readers of Lovecraft eZine would find plenty to love within its pages. It’s a well written book that should be made into a film by Joss Whedon post-haste. While waiting I read 14 and Rawlik was right. With these factors in mind I said, “What the hell. When a Beowulf writer offers a recommendation, I file it away for future reference. Peter Rawlik is someone I consider a Beowulf writer in a field awash with Dantes (Neal Stephenson first offered this distinction in question #2 of this Slashdot interview). While I myself had never read Peter Clines’ work I did recall Peter Rawlik saying good things about Clines’ novels 14 and The Fold on an episode of the Lovecraft eZine webcast. I won’t waste ink or your time adding to the clamoring din over works such as Snoopy Versus the Shoggoths yet as I grow older I’m delighted when I find my curmudgeonly preconceptions overturned. When Mike Davis first emailed me that Permuted Platinum had contacted Lovecraft eZine about reviewing Peter Clines’ novel The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe my first thoughts weren’t exactly courtly.
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