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SHOGGOTH  RECOLLECTIONS

7/8/2016

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Back when I was involved in the preproduction of the film THE CRY OF CTHULHU I wrote a screenplay titled SHOGGOTH. The story was to take place on a fictional top secret Army base in the Mojave Desert next to a living ghost town that I called Sibley.  I wasn’t happy with the name of the town and one afternoon I was struck by an epiphany and decided that since the script dealt partially with the origins of life on our planet, why not call it “Darwin.”

Several months later while studying maps of the Mojave, that I had obtained from the Bureau of Land Management, I discovered that there was an experimental research center out there that was run by the U.S. Navy occupying over a million acres.  It was the Naval Weapons Center, the NWC.  Scrutinizing the charts further, low and behold, I learned that smack dab at the north end of the NWC property line was the town of “Darwin.”

The Elder Ones most assuredly had pointed me in the right direction.  Consequently, over the years, I was able to visit the NWC twice, getting permission to examine the many petroglyphs that lie within its borders thus obtaining valuable research for what eventually became my latest novel.

To learn more about my novel SHOGGOTH please visit Amazon.com
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    Byron Craft

       When my avocation became my vocation I was set free.  

       Writing, at first, was a hobby that I loved dearly.  It turned into a serious endeavor several years ago when I started writing screenplays.  Unfortunately selling one out of every ten was not very lucrative.  Success comes in many forms and my poor returns from screenplays matured my writing style, ultimately affording me the ability to author hundreds of magazine articles that generated a decent paycheck.  

       Fast forward to today and my initial release of my novel “The Alchemist’s Notebook,” has been re-titled and published as "The CRY of CTHULHU."

       It is a whirlwind story in the style of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos that takes the reader from Vietnam to Innsmouth then Arkham and eventually to Europe wherein chaos and screaming terror awaits all living creatures on our planet.  

       I pledge to keep the reader on pins and needles hoping that sanity and normalcy will return.

    “The CRY of CTHULHU” and all future novels, along with my blogs, will deal exclusively with that genre.


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