"What’s your sign, baby?”

The fictional worlds created by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) have had an immeasurable influence on modern horror.

Previously, on Salmonweird: retired Detective Inspector (DI) Karl Blackman, sole living human in the cozy coastal Cornish village of Salmonweir, revealed the otherworldy Christmastime killer responsible for the deaths of two of the English ghost town’s spectral inhabitants, dealt with the reappearance of an

Greetings! We at the British Board of Tourism welcome you to the wonderful seaside hamlet of Salmonweir. Here on the lovely windswept southwestern Cornish coast, you will have the time of your life visiting the most enigmatic village in all of England. What is it that makes Salmonweir so, well, weird?

What used to be said about people who were knowledgeable in many topics, and could calmly debate and maintain conversations in any company? He is a well-read person. After all, it is true that people used to get the main information from books.

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Since time immemorial humans from every civilization and have been fascinated with what lies past this mortal coil. It’s the Eternal Mystery: once we exhale that final breath, is there only the dark embrace of oblivion, or do we, as some assert, continue to exist in some spectral state?

‘They strive, and yet delay; They perish, Do we die; Or is this Death's Experiment, Reversed in Victory?'—Emily Dickinson

The eternal existential question ‘Who Am I?’ has various answers depending on what audience we entertain.

'Heroic Fantasy’ is an umbrella term encompassing any number of adventurous subgenres that mix magic, myth and drama to one degree or other.