Product Description

The Spiraling Worm is a collection of seven interconnected tales concerning the adventures of Australian Army intelligence officer Harrison Peel and NSA agent Jack Dixon, in their global battles to halt the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos destroying the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #502607 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
The ideas and scope are consistently breathtaking. There is plenty in this book to captivate hardcore Cthulhu Mythos fans and those unfamiliar with the work of Lovecraft and his ilk . . . It will probably be the most original and imaginative Australian release this year. While others are rehashing vampires, werewolves, and witches . . . David Conyers and John Sunseri are tackling cosmic horrors -- warts, pseudopods, and all -- and the results are spectacular. --Shane Jiraiya Cummings, HorrorScope

Customer Reviews

Interesting ideas. Abysmally written.
This book is full of interesting ideas for "Call of Cthulhu" and particularly "Delta Green" wonks. So if you only read for the thrill of speculation and are willing to overlook mediocre prose, asinine dialog, boring characters, and lousy fiction chops in general, then you will probably enjoy it. Personally I have a hard time with that. Every ridiculously implausible plot development, every line of dialogue that sounds like a Steven Segal movie, every time the writer chooses to explain rather than evoke the story--these all stick in my craw and make it hard to take any pleasure from the text. A 5-star book, in my opinion, is one that comes as close to achieving perfection as any human work is capable, and anyone who reads this book and thinks it couldn't have been done any better has a dim view of our species indeed. The huge gulf between the book I expected (based on the glowing reviews) and the book I received made this one of the most disappointing reading experiences of my life, and left me suspicious, honestly, that the reviews here on Amazon have been padded by those with a financial or other personal stake in this book

Good stuff!
I came here to write a nice review of the book, but after reading all of the positive comments already posted I don't think there's much I can add. The only detractor for me was the cover art. I know Chaosium reissues their more successful titles and if this one gets a reprint I'd like to see it with a new cover. I hope these two authors pair up again for another go at it.

An excellent work, but an editorial issue...
This was a great book with well conceived stories and top rate characterization and writing - best Mythos work I've read so far.

HOWEVER. I'm one of those who read all the info on the front and back covers of the book before I start on the innards, and I was not happy to find that the editors had felt it necessary to print the full culmination of the final story on the back cover. This was a spoiler of epic proportions.

Buy the book, but do NOT read the cover text... What the HELL were they thinking? *sharon*