The book was published by one of the lesser small presses in the field, Innsmouth Free Press-a point emphasised by the fact that the very first paragraph of the first story contains a typographical error (one of many peppering the book), along with all manner of other problems of copyediting, design, and production. Other works include the novels Sensation (2011), Bullettime (2012), Love Is the Law (2013), and The Last Weekend (2014), and the story collections 3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once (2003) and You Might Sleep … (2009).Ī useful place to start our analysis of Mamatas’s work is The Nickronomicon, a volume that contains works first published from 2004 to 2013, with one unpublished item. Lovecraft, an author with whom Mamatas seems to have a kind of love-hate relationship. The one element that unites these three works-as well as the story collection The Nickronomicon (2014)-is Mamatas’s simultaneous imitation and parody of the work of H. This schema is the basis for his novels Move under Ground (2004), The Damned Highway (2011), and I Am Providence (2016). He has attempted to make a career out of mimicking other writers-or, more specifically, of imitating two different writers in a single work of fiction.

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