Mr. Cannyharme

Mr. Cannyharme is a novel by the late American author Michael Shea. It is a loose retelling of H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Hound".
==Synopsis==
Set in San Francisco during the late 1970s or early 1980s, Mr. Cannyharme follows several characters who live in and around the run-down Hyperion Hotel. An immortal evil lurks within the hotel, and some are seduced by its promise of eternal life, while others take a stand against the horrors it wishes to inflict upon the human race.
==Main Characters==
*Jack Hale, an author and poet working desk at the Hyperion to earn some money.
*Brittany/Britt, a young addict with a history of childhood abuse.
*Aarti, the daughter of the hotel managers.
*Mr. Cunningham/Mr. Cannyharme/Mr. Van Haarme, an immortal entity who appears to feed on the basest emotions of humankind.
==Publication History==
Mr. Cannyharme was published by Hippocampus Press in August 2021. Both paperback and digital versions were released.
==Behind the Mythos==
Despite not seeing publication until 2021, Linda Shea, Michael's widow, states in her introduction that the novel was completed in 1981. In addition, sections of the work were taken and rewritten by Shea himself, being published as the short stories "The Pool" and "The Recruiter" in 2007 and 2009 respectively.
==Trivia==
*The Hyperion Hotel is a recurrent location in Michael Shea's Mythos-related works.
*Chester Chase, a secondary character in Mr. Cannyharme, is the protagonist of the short story "The Recruiter", although the outcome for him is very different in these stories.
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