THE DEEP ONES: "The Sound of a Door Opening" by Don Webb

"The Sound of a Door Opening" by Don Webb.

Discussion begins February 28, 2024.

First published in Shoggoth #2 (1993).



BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1135536

SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS

The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft
When They Came

ONLINE VERSIONS

No online versions found to date.

ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS

No online audio versions found to date.

MISCELLANY

https://www.teemingbrain.com/interviews/interview-with-don-webb/
http://tinyurl.com/4jn885z3

I just read from The Starry Wisdom.

I met Don Webb in person a few times when I lived in Austin back around the turn of the millennium. I genuinely enjoy his work, and I think I have significant sympathy for his creative process as an occultist writing fiction. In this case, I think I've also met in person the real-life model for his Maya character.

This story is like one of several more recently written by Jeffrey Ford (I have in mind particularly "Five-Pointed Spell") where the narrating main character has the name and general trappings of the author. "The Sound of Door Opening" fuses that approach with the illuminated anticipation characteristic of the coda of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." Nice work!

Don't have access to this story, but compelled to note: Always struck by the crystalline perfection of that title. Almost reluctant to ever read the story, for fear of it not living up to my amorphous yet distinct expectation.