He cleans up the residence and types up correspondence and handwritten stories. He's simply a man who shows up to do a job and gets to it. Perhaps part of the problem is that the story begins with no real reason to identify or commiserate with Arthor, who is both protagonist and narrator. Unfortunately, the execution results in a plodding story that will have readers asking “Where is this going?” - but not in a good way. The setup is full of possibilities that could lead almost anywhere. Here Lovecraft is elusive and mysterious, seldom leaving his bedroom and communicating with Arthor largely via written missives. The story opens in 1936 when down-on-his-luck Arthor Crandle accepts employment as a live-in secretary and assistant for a reclusive writer who turns out to be none other than Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself. Lovecraft is known for, but in the end author Jacqueline Baker's attempt to emulate - and write about - such a singular literary master simply falls short of the mark. “The Broken Hours” strives to evoke the unsettling sense of creepiness and dread that famed author H.P. Lovecraft” by Jacqueline Baker (Talos, 320 pages, in stores) "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.“The Broken Hours: A Novel of H.P. Add to this the arrival of a beautiful woman who may not be exactly what she seems, and Crandle is pulled deeper into the strange world of the horror writer (a man known to Crandle only through letters, signed “Ech-Pi”), until Crandle begins to unravel the dark secret at its heart.Ī brilliantly written, compelling and deeply creepy novel, The Broken Hours is an irresistible literary ghost story. As the novel opens, Crandle arrives at Lovecraft’s home with no knowledge of the writer or his work but is soon drawn into his distinctly unnerving world: the malevolent presence that hovers on the landing the ever-shining light from Lovecraft’s study, invisible from the street and visions in the night of a white-clad girl in the walled garden.
At the edge of a nervous breakdown, he hires a personal assistant, Arthor Crandle.
Lovecraft is broke, living alone in a creaky old house and deathly ill. In the spring of 1936, horror writer H.P.
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