![]() ![]() Lean and gory, Crota harkens back to those old-school pulpy novels. It was that point the Bram Stoker awards presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was also given that year to Thomas Ligotti. Goingback would go on to write several more novels, including 2019’s Coyote Rage, which also won him the Stoker for best novel. When first published in 1996, Owl Goingback’s Crota won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and came just short against Stephen King’s The Green Mile for best novel of the year. ![]() But there is a heart here, and not the one the titular beast scopes from the chest of its victims. Crota appears to be a very by-the-numbers sort of creature-feature at first, what with the monster coming from the darkness and brutally murdering human and bovine alike. ![]()
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