Fin is a socialite vacationing with her husband and friends on Long Island for the summer. Ellie is a local, selling moonshine brewed a local woman to pay for her brother to go to college and medical school. The story is set on Long Island in the 1920s or possibly early 1930s (seriously, would it have killed Tanzer to set a definite date? I hate having to guess!).
The result is an offbeat variation on Lovecraftian horror (the horror comes off primarily as variation on Color Out of Space though I don’t know that was actually Tanzer’s inspiration) it’s also a good example of how to write women in a historical fantasy who don’t conform to their era’s rules. So if Lovecraftian cults ever launched a crusade, what would it look like? In CREATURES OF WANT AND RUIN by Molly Tanzer, the answer - logical given Lovecraft’s own loathing of immigrants - is that they’d preach against immigrants ruining society with their filthy unAmerican immigrant ways (yes, this could also be seen as relevant to current politics).
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