Thread:Tim66/@comment-26954170-20180112061003

Rex and Hannah have moved.

In January of 2015, I decided it was time for a new direction for our two favourite former Warlocks. So, for Rex and Hannah, that meant good-bye San Francisco and hello Lovecraft Country.

In my 34th R&H story, New Frontiers, Rex took a new job at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts (the setting of many of H.P. Lovecraft's stories). That meant he and Hannah ended up moving there. Of course, things aren't as they seem, and perhaps Rex's new job came with perks that he wasn't anticipating.

This is still ongoing, but I think this is the right way to go. I'd already dropped the Halliwells as guest characters, and the next logical step was to move R&H away from San Francisco (the setting of Charmed). Since I'm now aiming for the Lovecraft fans, moving R&H into his territory seemed right. Of course, not all of R&H's adventures in their new home will be Lovecraft related, but I am working on a story arc that involves Lovecraftian themes. Stay tuned.

And it seemed my decision was the right one. Since moving my R&H Chronicles into the Cthulhu Mythos section of FF.net, I've already gotten more reviews than the two years they sat gathering dust in the Charmed section (I only joined FF.net in 2012). Not many reviews, mind you, but it's better than no reviews, which is exactly how many they got in the Charmed section.

Some might ask me: "Tim, by using Lovecraft's concepts in your Rex and Hannah stories, aren't you doing the same thing you accused Kern of doing, namely ripping off pop culture?"

To that I would answer the following:

It all depends on how it is handled. I am a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft and I pay tribute to him by tying in his concepts with the Rex and Hannah Chronicles. However, I don't have Lovecraft concepts appear in the R&H Chronicles now because Lovecraft is the current "big thing". Rather, I've done it because these stories are tribute to an author who's works I love to read. Besides, as I said above, R&H seem to have found a home among the Lovecraft fans (and among those at the Alexander Palace Time Machine Board).

And while movies based on Lovecraft have been made, and done moderately well, they were nowhere near the box office smashes of Harry Potter and Pirates Of The Caribbean. What I'm doing now, and what Kern did, are two totally different things. 