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resume with monsters william browning spencerI originally reviewed Resume With Monsters on November 3, 2006

Over the course of 16 years, 4 novels and 2 story collections William Browning Spencer has been quietly carving out his own bit of territory. His voice is singularly unique combining a vivid imagination and an always odd and sometimes bizarre sense of humor.

In Resume With Monsters William Browning Spencer (yes, that’s his name and no he isn’t a Romantic Poet) asks the audacious question that cube monkeys everywhere had been asking themselves ‘Is there a connection, or more specifically an unholy alliance between corporations and Cthulu?’ The gloriously demented answer is YES! Cube monkeys of the world rejoice, their secrets are finally exposed (but remember to only rejoice at a pre-approved scheduled time that is off company property, please see your supervisor to have your leg chains unlocked)

Resume With Monsters is a gleefully demented book with sharp observations on corporate culture. Anyone who has worked for a larger company will find a lot of enjoyment here though it certainly isn’t a prerequisite. It also takes the Cthulu mythos into an under utilized territory that plays more for laughs then thrills and scares all the while mirroring in many ways the typical quest that a Lovecraftian protagonist undertook.

Brian Lindenmuth

Brian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of Snubnose Press. In addition to Spinetingler his work has appeared in Crimespree magazine and at BSC Review, Galleycat and the Mulholland Books website. He also heads the Spinetingler Award committee.

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