I have listed on eBay a paperback copy of the extremely rare - and extremely funny - H.P.Lovecraft/P.G.Wodehouse parody "Scream for Jeeves" by D.H.Cannon, with marvellous illustrations by J.C.Eckhardt. It is the 1st (and only) Edition, published in 1994 by Wodecraft Press, New York / Necronomicon Press, Rhode Island.

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From the back cover of the book:

"Scream for Jeeves kindly hands Yog-Sothothery that touch of snoot it's been totally lacking for far too long." - Gahan Wilson

P.G.Wodehouse and H.P.Lovecraft never crossed paths in their lifetimes, and yet in some ideal realm of the spirit these two geniuses – one of humor, one of horror – might have pooled their pens to produce such tales as:

"Cat, Rats, and Bertie Wooster", in which the intrepid Jeeves and his master leave London for Anchester in order to investigate the spectral doings at Exham Priory;

"Something Foetid", in which the pair, during a New York sojourn, find themselves involved with a reclusive Spanish doctor with a fondness for cool air;

"The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie", in which they go to Paris on Aunt Agatha’s orders to keep an eye on that oddball antiquarian, Charles Dexter Ward.

Since both authors admired Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, it comes as no surprise that in this last episode Bertie and Jeeves resort to enlisting the aid of one “Mr Altamont, of Chicago...”

Rounding out the volume is a lengthy commentary, "The Adventure of the Three Anglo-American Authors: Some Reflections on Conan Doyle, P.G.Wodehouse, and H.P.Lovecraft."

What P.D.Q.Bach has done for classical music, what Roy Lichtenstein has done for modern painting, P.H.Cannon has done for Lovecraft and Wodehouse and Doyle (and others) in this affectionate literary spoof.

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A review from "Publishers' Weekly":

"Cannon parodies P.G. Wodehouse and H.P. Lovecraft by combining the two, and brevity, clean prose and a good ear make it work. Bertie Wooster retells three Lovecraft tales in the manner of the "Jeeves" stories, and the humor comes from Bertie's cheery, puerile voice describing Lovecraft's horrors, interspersed with doses of Lovecraft's overwrought prose. The best is "Cats, Rats, and Bertie Wooster," which sticks to The Rats in the Walls, although sometimes too many Lovecraft elements threaten to capsize this fragile craft. "Something Foetid" adds Lovecraft's Randolph Carter to (Lovecraft's) Cool Air. "The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie", mixing The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and Arthur Jermyn'with The Music of Erich Zann, seems disjointed and the climax is muddled. Occasional anachronisms jar, and it seems inconsistent, even in the world of "H.P.G. Wodecraft", that Bertie should be so familiar with the lore that in Lovecraft's stories is exotic and abstruse. In the sometimes stilted closing essay on Lovecraft, Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, Cannon strains after connections among the three, to no apparent purpose. But, quibbles aside, the book is clever and fun. One needs to have read some Wodehouse and a lot of Lovecraft to get all the jokes, but fans will be tickled."

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Will be sent 1st Class Recorded for free.

Many thanks!
Jules