Title: The Quest for Captain Sammy's Treasure
Author: C.L. Hart
Date: 2023
Publisher: Naughty Netherworld
Quote: "Darkness and ominous silence dominated the Jungle of Kled."
This short but complete story is another piece of fanfiction, with some places and characters taken directly from the works of H.P. Lovecraft and others from the works of other Naughty Netherworld authors. It seems more an introduction to a horror novel than a horror story; a character describes various sinister "goddesses" as her aunts, before invoking a rather pretty and nice one who helps the characters find the treasure rather easily. Here are gross-outs rather than horrors, told with that selfconscious delight in a self-parodic style of writing that adds comic relief to Lovecraftian horror fiction. One of Captain Sammy's companions is a humanoid with snakelike features, and one is an alien monster, but they're clearly not bad sorts. They are acquainted with Ketil and Yitzy.
Most of humankind may find no use whatsoever for this story. Others take an understandable delight in it--Cthulhu fanfiction being a genre that unites lovers of wacky gross-out horror fiction of all ages and nations--and should rush right out and buy it. The printed version is in an anthology called Pirate's Gold. The e-book contains links readers should be able to use to buy or download that book.
If you're not sure whether you'd ever get into the Cthulhu Mythos, this story might be an easy introduction; the horrors aren't very horrible and the gross-outs aren't very gross. The fictional universe of this story gets much nastier than the Jungle of Kled.
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