He’s anxiously waiting in an Arizona diner for his contact. The novella opens by introducing us to the Signalman, your typical Government special agent, a seasoned campaigner who has seen it all, has a liver fermenting in alcohol and is close to either blowing his brains out or disappearing into the desert. It might be influenced or inspired by those ideas but it’s very much it’s own thing. But Agents of Dreamland is not a journey into nostalgia or a satire on some well-worn tropes. In one sense the novella feels like a throwback to the 90s when the X-Files was popular and every second slice of pop culture had something to do with the Illuminati, the masons, deep state conspiracies or the dreaded, unknowable greys. Kiernan is a novella that mixes together Lovecraft’s mythos with men in black suits and Area 51 (the Dreamland of the title).
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