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Crow112101 rated The Old Man’s Request 5 stars
As a life long gamer, many spent playing in the settings created by Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu, the first thing that caught my eye was the cover of The Old Man’s Request. The cover art captured the feel and spirit of those worlds instantly and I knew I was going to be in for a treat with this story.
The Utgarda Trilogy is strongly influenced by what is known as cosmic, or Lovecraftian, horror. The genre, created by H.P. Lovecraft and others, is a style the deals with the unknown, as opposed to traditional horror traditions, which concerned themselves with things contrary to man, god, or the natural order of things. Most of the traditional horror themes had folklore and/or religious origins, whereas cosmic horror saw mankind and insignificant in an uncaring universe.