YMMV / Neonomicon

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• Best Known for the Fanservice: Or Fan Disservice in this case. It's been given the Fan Nickname of "the fish-rape book" for this reason.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In a few years or so, there would be another story about sex between a woman and a fish man, though with less rape and with more Interspecies Romance (maybe). And yes, joking comparisons have been made.
• Memetic Mutation: Tied in to Hilarious in Hindsight above, a number of Tumblr posts showing Brears' third rape by the Deep One (arguably the least graphic and most fanservicey) were jokingly subtitled "The Shape of Water (2017), dir. Guillermo del Toro."
• Never Live It Down: Again, nobody is ever going to let Alan Moore forget about "the fish-rape book" he wrote.
• Squick: Where to begin? Well, a Deep One getting a handjob and seeing its...contents spray out might be a good start.
• Tear Jerker: Agent Brears' horrified outburst of swearing, while pounding on the locked door and begging to be let out, after the cult leader locks her in the room with the Deep One, just before he drags her back into the pool.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: One could argue that a version of Lovecraft that swings in the opposite direction from his Nothing Is Scarier attitude might work. Using it as little more than an excuse for rape scene after rape scene is utterly squandering that potential.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: For many, the book wasted whatever potential it could have had as a fresh exploration of Lovecraft's stories by devolving into a series of ultra-graphic and ultra-disgusting rape scenes with the actual Cosmic Horror Story elements seeming secondary in comparison. Said Cosmic Horror Story, however brief, is by itself incredibly bleak, because it's not about humanity's insignificance, but the incoming The End of the World as We Know It.

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