Rafael Ábalosis a Spanish author of the bestseller book, "Grimpow: The Invisible Road" published in 2007, a ccording to a review in "Publishers Weekly", Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s 2003 mystery-detective novel?
Rafael Ábalos Rafael Ábalos (born 12 October 1956 in Archidona, Málaga) is a Spanish author of the bestseller book "Grimpow: The Invisible Road" published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in "Publishers Weekly", Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s "The Da Vinci Code"", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by "Random House".
Books in the Cthulhu Mythos Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in H.P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The main literary purpose of these works is to explain how characters within the tales come by occult or esoterica (knowledge that is unknown to the general populace). However, in some cases the works themselves serve as an important plot device. Thus, in Robert Bloch's tale "The Shambler from the Stars", a weird fiction writer seals his doom by casting a spell from the arcane book "De Vermis Mysteriis".