Review: Beast "Borrows More Directly From Lovecraft"
Book review: The Beast under the Wizard's Bridge
Good horror fiction for young audiences can be hard to come by,
but two of your best bets are John Bellairs and his literary inheritor Brad
Strickland. While Bellairs was content to emulate Lovecraft’s tone of
foreboding—his sense of all powerful, ever-present evil—Strickland has gone a
step further. Where Bellairs invented his own menaces, Strickland borrows more
directly from Lovecraft. In The Beast Under the Wizard’s Bridge,
he even calls the Great Old Ones by name. (And we all know what a bad idea
that is.)
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