“Barbara Cottrell takes Lovecraft back to school and drags the Cthulhu Mythos into the 21st century” – Ross E. Lockhart

In Darkness Below, Barbara Cottrell takes Lovecraft back to school and drags the Cthulhu Mythos into the 21st century by presenting Miskatonic University not as a venerable, ivy-covered university, but as a struggling modern school, dealing with fraternity crawls, violence, and its place within haunted Arkham, and populating it with likeable, intelligent characters with agency and interior lives. Fans of Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom will enjoy this eldritch adventure