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China Mieville - Details Details China Mieville China Mieville is the author of several short stories and three novels: King Rat, Perdido Street Station (which won the Arthur C. Clarke and British Fantasy Awards), and The Scar. Born in 1972, he lives and works in London. Mieville says: Details was an attempt to write an homage to Lovecraft that was un-Lovecraftian in style. It was serendipity that John Pelan and Benjamin Adams were putting together an anthology with the same idea— tribute, not imitation or parody. The story succeeds brilliantly in evoking Lovecraftian horror without invoking any specifically Lovecraftian tropes. No small feat! Details was originally published in The Children of Cthulhu. —E. D. When the boy upstairs got hold of a pellet gun and fired snips of potato at passing cars, I took a turn. I was part of everything. I wasnt an outsider. But I wouldnt join in when my friends went to the yellow house to scribble on the bricks and listen at the windows. One girl teased me about it, but everyone else told her to shut up. They defended me, even though they didnt understand why I file:///H|/eMule/Incoming/China%20Mieville%20-%20Details.html (1 of 22)13-8-2005 23:44:36 China Mieville - Details wouldnt come. I dont remember a time before I visited the yellow house for my mother. On Wednesday mornings at about nine oclock I would open the front door of the decrepit building with a key from the bunch my mother had given me. Inside was a hall and two doors, one broken and leading to the splintering stairs. I would unlock the other and