![]() ![]() The story didn't work at all, and my instructor Ethan Canin encouraged me to think about my characters a little more warmly and sympathetically. I originally saw it as one of those sprawling multigenerational epics like 'Middlesex” or 'The Hotel New Hampshire.” It was an idea I always kept in my back pocket, something I planned to write 'someday.” When I entered the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2014, I wrote and turned in a story about a couple breaking up while touring a haunted house. ![]() Q: What led you to tell this particular story?Ī: I'd always wanted to write a novel about a family running a business. A 2016 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Hamill answered questions about his book via email. Lovecraft's tendency to undervalue the human experience. A smart, layered story of a family and the monsters that haunt their lives, the book is explicitly steeped in the Lovecraftian traditions of the horror novel even as it rejects H.P. Shaun Hamill's debut novel, 'A Cosmology of Monsters,” is perfect for reading in the run-up to Halloween. ![]()
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