/lit/ - Literature

Posted here before but actually started writing a little since then.

Psuedo-Noir throwback to Lovecraft horror, set in 1950s America.

Starting as a report from a Detective for his new employer, describing the events leading up to his hiring. He returns to his to his home city after a letter from a client apparently referred to him. Finding the client dead he meets up with a childhood friend on the police force and begins a two pronged witch hunt for the killer and a conspiracy of the cities rapid industrialization at the cost of a standards creepy/cultish remote town deep in the mountains.

The Lovecraft aspect comes into it when they realize that the small town isn't run evil cult, but the victims of a seemingly sentient oil that corrupts those exposed to it physically and mentally and the goal becomes to save as many people as possible before the town is obliterated in an attempt to hide/subdue the horrors they've been exposed to.

The oil is in fact just the conduit for a god that, being immortal and omnipotent, has watched it's own universe die and is trying to break into another