cmrosensHorror Spotlight: Cosmic Horror Novel “The Day We Ate Grandad”
Average rating: 4.77
Ratings: 22
Text Reviews: 9
Want to read: 71
Added to shelves: 100
Average rating: 5.00
Reviews: 11
Three possible futures. Two versions of the apocalypse. One chance to save the world.
Wes Porter, a severely depressed insanity-inducing playboy, is detoxing from hallucinogens that have unlocked his ability to see versions of potential futures – and he’s just foreseen two ways the world could end. Normally, Wes would leave the hero bullshit to somebody else, but he can’t abdicate responsibility this time… not when both those apocalypses might be his fault.
With some prompting from a mythological bard-prophet who may or may not be real, and a lot of assistance from his monster-eating baby sister who desperately wants to move out of his apartment, and their soothsayer cousin who has his own demons to fight, Wes attempts to save [his] world… but have his poor decisions doomed them all?
Get it in the Queer March Itch.io BundleTitle: The Day We Ate Grandad
Genre: New Weird, Contemporary Arthuriana, Cosmic Horror, Family Drama, Urban Fantasy
Age: Adult
Tropes: Weird Arthuriana (Merlin Interferes), Does What It Says on the Tin, Oops I Started A Death Cult (Everyone Makes Mistakes), Finding Myself (And Finding I Hate Me), Addiction-Powered Millionaire Playboy (Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know), Creepy Family (Half Human Hybrid Eldritch Abominations who are Inbred and Evil), Lovecraft Lite (with Body Horror), Stopping the Elder Gods (Has Anyone Tried Eating Them?), Toxic Relationships, Judas Kiss.
How I feel about it: I wish more people knew about it, and gave it a go! This book came out a month after I sold the other 2 to Canelo, so it didn’t get a very fair run. A few months after its release, I had to pull The Crows and Thirteenth for their 2024 re-release, and so the series was incomplete. As it lost so much momentum (and I was really burned out and writing other books), I never really got that marketing boost back. I’m determined to rectify that, though.
What surprised me most: It was picked up as a standalone novel by several readers who enjoyed it like that, and recommended it as a standalone novel to an Anne Rice fandom community on tumblr! Wes reminded the reader of Lestat, and the worldbuilding also struck a resonant chord, so it was recced as Vampire Chronicles “Eldritch Edition”. Honestly, that’s the best marketing I could wish for.
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What Readers Say:
“Serial killers and family-eating cannibal monsters shouldn’t be this loveable. Often gruesome but also funny in a dark shroud sort of way. This is a book for fans of weird fiction, gore-spattered horror, and heart-warming stories of cousins standing together against an apocalypse.”
“I can’t tell if C.M. Rosens keeps getting better or if my love for her characters allows the storylines to cut deeper every time, but either way, I’m not complaining”
“CM Rosens’ world of eldritch horrors living among us in her Pagham-on-Sea universe is filled with fascinating, funny, completely addictive characters that you can’t stop reading about. … Interesting characters, atmospheric and impossible to put down.”
“C.M. Rosens’ Pagham-on-Sea books are tremendously good Gothic fun. What happens when the worst guy in your family accidentally starts a cult that might cause the end of the world? Bloody, cannibalistic shenanigans, that’s what! Highly recommended for enjoyers of decaying eldritch families, modern Arthuriana, and rejecting generational curses.”
“Rosens has a very engaging writing style that feels natural and pulls you into the world of Pagham on Sea and truly brings the characters to life.
And, as is expected, this book has amazing illustrations too!”
“Honestly, as excited as I’ve been for this book for years now, I initially really wasn’t sure how I’d feel about a book centred around Wes of all people – partly because he’s one of those I love to hate (and hate to love) but also because I wasn’t quite sure how that might be possible without making it a deeply unpleasant experience. Well, Rosens managed. It isn’t pleasant being in Wes’s head, not at all, but that’s the point – and that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun or enjoyable. I had a great time! I’d even say I love him more than I hate him now, and that is a fucking accomplishment.”
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