Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion–and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare,...
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Feb 01, 2012
Clint
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I admit the marketing for this book is insanely misleading, and I remember when I bought it in the 9th grade I kind of knew Lovecraft had never written the stores that I saw were in the table of contents, and I did get the idea when reading it that these weren't even collaborations, they were 95 percent of more just August Derleth. I don't know, maybe the titles were created by Lovecraft and the stories written by Derleth. But I don't agree at all with the universal panning of this book. It's
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Sep 16, 2011
Jayaprakash
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Derleth gets props for his work as a publisher and editor, and people mumble vaguely about his 'regional fiction' having its merits. But his Lovecraftian fiction is, not to mince words, shite. Lovecraft was a philosophical writer; there was a worldview at the heart of his fiction, a personal and strongly-felt perspective on this universe of ours. His earlier Dunsany-influenced fiction may not have reflected the fully-formed Lovecraftian conception of Cosmic Horror, but they had many wonderful tu
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Feb 10, 2008
So now I'm praying for the watchers out of time
to hurry up and arrive
cuz if I have to spend another minute with Cthulhu
I don't think that I could really survive...
I'll never break my promise
or forget my vow
etc etc etc
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
we were sleeping in Rl'yeh till the stars were right
etc etc etc
Really, Meatloaf (Nyarlathoaf) has nothing to do with this book.
to hurry up and arrive
cuz if I have to spend another minute with Cthulhu
I don't think that I could really survive...
I'll never break my promise
or forget my vow
etc etc etc
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
we were sleeping in Rl'yeh till the stars were right
etc etc etc
Really, Meatloaf (Nyarlathoaf) has nothing to do with this book.
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Apr 07, 2009
Jeff
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I read this sometime not that long ago but not many of the stories have stuck with me at all. The most amusing thing is that this seems, if you read it carefully, to be entirely the work of August Derleth. I don't think anything here is actually written by Lovecraft. That's ok, though, I am not a Derleth hater. It's just funny how deceptive the whole thing is, with cover blurbs from the New York Times (presumably referring to something else) and laudatory quotations on the back about Lovecra
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Aug 11, 2011
Mishi
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First and foremost, this collection of short stories is mostly Derleth's work. That's not meant as a lash at the author, for he and Lovecraft were both dead by the time this was published and labeled as "HP Lovecraft." Derleth's name appears in small font on the cover, while Lovecraft's blares from it.
Derleth and Lovecraft had been friends, and when Lovecraft passed away, Derleth finished Lovecraft's unfinished sentences/ideas that Lovecraft had jotted down.
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Derleth and Lovecraft had been friends, and when Lovecraft passed away, Derleth finished Lovecraft's unfinished sentences/ideas that Lovecraft had jotted down.
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Aug 08, 2010
Oscar
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No cabe duda de que a August Derleth hay que achacarle muchas cosas, entre ellas la explotación de toda la obra de H.P. Lovecraft desde la muerte de éste. Derleth fue un adepto de Lovecraft, un miembro de su círculo más íntimo, lo que le permitió (junto a Donald Wandrei), hacerse con todos sus papeles, novelas y esbozos. Y bien sabemos que lo aprovechó, porque no sólo publicó toda su obra conocida sino que también se dedicó a dar forma y a terminar cualquier esbozo que encontró del Maestro.
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Aug 11, 2011
Doug
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I read this years ago, and hated it. Not even particularly sure why it got my dander up *that* much, but it did. A friend recently got it for me as a birthday gift, this newer edition, and so I started re-reading it. It's not that bad. A weird mix of new ideas, "sequels" to Lovecraft stories that did not need sequels, ret-conning of Lovecraft's mythos, and fanfic. Still, there is as much to like as to hate, here, and a couple of the stories are quite interesting on their own. I liked t
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Feb 05, 2010
Jeannie
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Granted,I was not feeling too warm and fuzzy about Derth from the start by the insulting introduction about Lovecraft and then to find out Lovecraft had very little to do with the writing of these stories and then the Christianization of the stories...Well,I was not pleased.This book goes back to the library not completed.
Back to Lovecraft and his friends at Cthulu 2000.
Back to Lovecraft and his friends at Cthulu 2000.
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Jan 17, 2011
Redsteve
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Advertized as written by H.P. Lovecraft, but copyrights for ALL of the stories list only August Derleth. Pretty good stories regardless, but a bit repetitive when read all together - This was probably much less noticable when spread out through their original formats (Weird Tales and multiple Derleth books).
Oh, I almost forgot: MULTIPLE POES!!!!
Oh, I almost forgot: MULTIPLE POES!!!!
Jul 30, 2009
Tom
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Entertaining, but nothing special. Almost all of the stories follow the same formula: Bookish young man moves into spooky old house, house's former occupant was into strange experiments/research/rituals, horrible revelation at the end.
Jun 25, 2010
Colin
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Some good stories, but not really any great ones - these stories billed as co-written with H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth are mostly the work of Derleth, as far as I can tell, and Derleth has not Lovecraft's master's touch . . .
Sep 26, 2011
Scott
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Supposed collaborations are almost pure Derleth and little if any Lovecraft so beware. Some of the stories are average while some are poor. Derleth was a better editor than he was a writer.
Feb 07, 2012
Nicholas
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Many of the stories in this collection have a very similar feeling, yet each is exciting and suspenseful in its own unique manner. August Derleth shows his amazing talent within most of these stories, some, especially the older tales, are a little slower to develop and are easy to determine what is coming in the end. Yet there are enough excellent stories to keep the reader interested. This collection by Derleth was in the Lovecraftian tradition, which is why H.P.'s name was on the cover as w
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Apr 24, 2009
Greyor
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So far, atavistic horror and ancestral curses abound. The house of Atreus would be proud.
I'm loving it. It's like Lovecraft but through a distorted mirror, since I've heard that these are written based on Lovecraft's notes for the most part. Still fun as hell to read.
I can't quite put it down but I'll be sad when it's over.
If you like Lovecraft, you'll dig this.
I'm loving it. It's like Lovecraft but through a distorted mirror, since I've heard that these are written based on Lovecraft's notes for the most part. Still fun as hell to read.
I can't quite put it down but I'll be sad when it's over.
If you like Lovecraft, you'll dig this.
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