From: brock@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Steve Brock)
Subject: Review of Resume With Monsters by William Browning Spencer
Date: 8 Apr 1995 12:46:47 GMT

RESUME WITH MONSTERS by William Browning Spencer.  Permanent Press,
Noyac Road, Sag Harbor, NY 11963, (516) 725-0111 (voice and FAX). 
212 pp., $22.00 cloth.  1-877946-53-2

                     Reviewed by Steve Brock

                             Resume

                          Philip Kenan
                          Austin, Texas

EXPERIENCE:

Present Position:   Typesetter - Ralph's One-Day Resumes, Austin
                    Supervisor: Ralph Pederson
                    Duties: Typeset business cards and resumes on
                            night shift

Past Position:      Printer/Drafter - MicroMeg, Fairfax, Virginia 
                    Supervisor: Ronald Bickwithers
                    Duties: Drew flowcharts and other graphics,
                            both freehand and on a computer


EDUCATION:

BS in English Literature - University of Northern Virginia 


REFERENCES:

Amelia Price - girlfriend.  We lived together in Fairfax.  She
     broke up with me and moved to Austin, and I followed her.  I
     want her back, but she thinks I'm crazy, just because
     MicroMeg's basement contained the accursed gate-keeper, Yog-
     Sothoth, the one who would usher in the Old Ones, the blight
     from black Space and Time.

Lily Metcalf - my therapist.  Since I moved to Austin, I've been
     talking to her about my problems: how no-one else seems to
     notice that Cthulhu, himself, is on his way and will be here
     in no time.

Al Bingham - co-worker and friend.  Just might be my ace-in-the
     hole.  Knows more than he's letting on.  Might help me find a
     copy of the "Necronomicon," with its incantations that repel
     demons.


PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:  Have written a 2,000-page novel: "The
     Despicable Quest," about the obscure (but real) monsters
     from H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" and other
     works.  Amelia says that it is the cause of my mental
     problems.

If hired, I promise to attend all meetings, though I might not be
able to give my undivided attention to them, and I promise to stay
out of the basement.  I will not work for any organization,
however, that employs a security guard named Hal Ketch.

Please do NOT call the owner of Hal's One-Day Resumes for a
reference.  He's conjured monsters in his office, and once the
ancient, hideous wisdom pierces someone, they're lost.

My foremost achievement, and the chief reason for you to retain me,
is that Steve Brock gave a book I'm in a grade of A in 
rec.arts.books.reviews.

Also by Spencer: "Maybe I'll Call Anna" (1990), and "The Return of
Count Electric and Other Stories" (1993).