Title: Almost a total loss
Review: The idea might have been good, but the execution is staggeringly inept. The entire "novel" consists of conversations between uninteresting characters, and the conversation consists almost entirely of recitations of lists. These lists, which can go on for pages, are lists of mythos- influenced authors and artists (some fictitious), imaginary mythos books, imaginary artworks,etc., etc. And when the author runs out of mythos steam the characters endlessly list pop music groups and their compositions (some fictitious), obscure horror movies (some fictitious), obscure classical works (mainly fictitious), and so on... you get the idea. The author, Pulver, has apparently been a music critic for most of his professional life, and he never leaves the day job far behind. With no characters one can give a dump about, no action, really no plot, and a text consisting almost entirely of irrelevant padding, this is one of the most unrewarding reads I have ever suffered through.
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