TPA Continued

I wrote this on Roayl Road today.

I've been a fan of Lovecraft and his predecessor's work for many years and I'm trying to write a novel about characters who are drawn into a cosmic horror experience. My protagonist is sent to a school in another state after a certain incident he is blamed for at his old school. This traumatises him to the point that he isolates himself from his new school. Another kid approaches my protagonist with a proposal to escape the school through a god called the Repairer of Reputations. Anyone who's read Chamber's King in Yellow knows this reference. The other kid promises that the Repairer can restore their old lives. And through some shenanigans they attempt to perform a play which will cause a ritual to happen that will allow them to visit this god. The problem is...this is too direct. Lovecraftian horror is wishy washy. Maybe it's real or maybe it's the protagonist's imagination. That's the problem with my story. I'm hoping to make this into a series about the same protagonist going through different aspects of Lovecraft's world like meeting with Ghouls and gods. The first problem: It's not vague enough. If I have them visit a god, it's like I'm saying the horror or that the god is real and there's no room for vagueness which I think is critical to making a cosmic horror/adventure book. The second problem: it feels too much like Percy Jackson. I have nothing against Percy Jackson but I want to set up my story in a way that seperates it from the story of "kid meets gods" that happens in the series. Does anyone have any advice for these two problems?

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