At the Acres of Madness

A.A. Milne brought us timeless and beloved childhood classics of sweetness, innocence, and friendship. H.P. Lovecraft brought us cosmic and cyclopean eldritch horrors beyond all sane human comprehension. Christine Morgan is exactly the kind of weirdo who’d gleefully combine them, and does so with two charmingly disturbing, disturbingly charming little tales. “The Very Black Goat” -- in which Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh set out for an Adventure in the Hundred-Acre Woods, where they encounter something unfamiliar: a Girl, with a special companion of her own. “The Haycorn Out Of Space” -- in which Piglet, hoping for an easier way for a Very Small Animal such as himself to stock his larder, follows the advice of his friends ... and finds far more than he bargained for.