Day 6, Lived any good books lately?

Select members of the human race have always known that the ancient ones will return to our verdant sphere. These learned scholars and madmen were arrogant enough to believe that the only vessel for the return of the ancient ones would be the dread priest Cthulhu (who sleeps in R’lyeh, darkness eternal). For centuries these accursed men kept watch for signs of the rise of the city of R’lyeh, none of them envisioned that a writer from New England named Sutter Cane would usher in the end of everything, through a mass produced pulp novel, and a movie based on it’s text.

In the Mouth of Madnessstars Sam Neil as an insurance fraud investigator looking into the disappearance of famed horror novelist Sutter Cane. Really, what is more horrifying then an insurance investigator? When Cane goes missing on the eve of the release of his reported masterpiece, crowds begin to riot, with axes. Is Cane a prophet of the ancient ones, channeling their dark perverse gospel into the printed page? Or are his legions of fans emotionally unbalanced and prone towards mass hysteria? Only John Carpenter knows.