S.T. Joshi Turns Mystery Writer

Longtime Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi has unleashed an eldritch secret upon the world: he's now a fiction writer. Curiously, his own scribbling is not in the genre he has so long devoted himself to studying, but rather, in the mystery novel tradition. The Removal Company, written under his pen name J.K. Maxwell, is a detective adventure, evidently without a trace of supernatural phenomena. Wilum Pugmire's blog carries the full story on this surprising development.

 Weird fiction scholars have enjoyed some notable successes in recent times when they have turned to fiction. One need only look at Mark Valentine or Brian J. Showers for the latest triumphs. But Joshi's case is the first in awhile where a weird literary student's own writing is in a significantly different genre.

Time will only tell whether or not Joshi ever tests his creative energies in a supernatural literary medium. In the meantime, mystery lovers who are also into ghostly yarns and strange stories can experience an unexpected thrill by picking up The Removal Company.

-Grim Blogger