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Come Down to a Lower Place
Come Down to a Lower Place | Seoyoung Yi
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Seul, a construction project manager, investigates a foul stench beneath the premier department store in Seoul. Hidden records from the building's construction during the colonial era hint at madness. The only clue is a cryptic phrase: "Bin-o-jae." Beneath the glittering showroom, she uncovers secrets tied not only to workers' suffering and capitalism's horrors, but to her own body. Come Down to a Lower Place is part of the Lovecraft Reanimated project, where leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagine the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. While honoring his eerie, grotesque imagery and the blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, they update his ideas for a global audience.
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Seoyoung Yi's Lovecraftian novella is intense, merging body horror with patriarchal, sexist attitudes towards women's bodily functions and, possibly with a patriarchal, sexist reaction, I was put off my breakfast yoghurt! This one could have been called "The Yeast from Yuggoth"!
Despite the gross-out factor that doesn't normally appeal to me, I enjoyed (if that's the right word) this entry in the Lovecraft Reanimated series: a stench-filled 4?

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This is my third in the Lovecraft Reanimated series, another text-based story rather than a graphic novel, and I'm hoping it's as good as "Alien Gods" after the rather disappointing "The Call of the Friend"?
There are eight of these books in the original Korean series, and the cover art by Choi, who drew TCotF, is excellent, regardless of my view of his narrative skills in his own offering.
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