While writing Cast a Deadly Spell, I included many references to other works and writers, especially those in the Cthulhu Mythos. If you’re interested, here are 12 that you can hunt down while reading or after you’ve finished. Feel free to leave a comment with your answers (the chapter or section title is fine, but feel free to be as detailed as you’d like) or send your answers to me via social media.
- Find a reference to the Louisiana swamp raid from “The Call of Cthulhu.”
- Find 1 reference to Ramsey Campbell and 1 to his work (found on different pages).
- Find a reference to the author of Reanimators and The Weird Company.
- Find a reference to the Mi-Go from “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
- Find a reference to the author of The Fisherman.
- Find a reference to Ghostbusters.
- Find a reference to Hastur, or more specifically his royal title.
- Find a reference to H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday.
- Find a reference to John Carpenter’s The Fog.
- Find a reference to the host of The Lovecraft eZine.
- Find a reference to the director of Night of the Living Dead.
- Find characters from “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (both in the same section).
