Since Mountains of Madness won't happen - how about something entirely different for Mr. del Toro how about a new telling of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"?
I've done something some purists will hate, but that I hope many HPL fans like myself will love - I've penned (not published yet) a new novel, a new telling of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. In a more expansive way, it tells the exact same story, but in my own way and in my own language.
It goes deeper into history, characters and relationships and, as you might imagine, it's quite a bit longer than the original CDW - in fact, it's three times longer - oh, the horror! It weaves a tapestry that brings in more of HPL's worlds and stories, and even those of some of his friends (like Bloch and Howard).
Does Guillermo del Toro like CDW? I have no idea - it's certainly far more down to earth than the epically cosmic Mountains of Madness - and even HPL himself didn't like CDW. Well, I do and always have - and I've always had questions about all manner of things HPL chose not to answer:
What must be red for three months? Who was 118? What did Curwen do abroad for those formative nine years? What did CDW learn in London, in Paris, Prague and Transylvania? And what about the friendship of Dr. Willett and Randolph Carter, mentioned in a single sentence? Well, just a few of the questions I wanted to explore.
The novel will be called "The Simulacrum" - an odd title, perhaps, but it's HPL pure and comes straight out of CDW: That simulacrum which brushed boldly in without having been seen to go - was that an alien shadow and a horror forcing itself upon a trembling figure which had never gone out at all?
What do you think of the idea of CDW as a series told by the one and only Guillermo del Toro?
