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    <body><![CDATA[terrifying journey into the unknown! this book is scary! it's horrifying! it's full of indescribable fear and terror! <br/><br/><br/>Lovecraft!!! apparently (i didn't know him, so this is hearsay) he was a big ol' racist, anti-semitic fool, who came to socialism late in life because he just hated...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26359463">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and ga...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16187976">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[That was fantastic! The story unfolds like the layers of an artichoke, with the delicious heart of it right at the end. (Don't tell me that's an overwrought metaphor; you're just jealous.)<br/><br/>I loved the way it was riveting without making me afraid of the dark, and the way I spent all but th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54513275">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well worth the 80¢ on my Kindle! I actually liked this quite a lot.  Lovecraft is considered the founder of modern horror. Unlike <em>Frankenstein</em>, Poe or other earlier (more literary) works of horror fiction, the story is not meant to be allegory or metaphor for anything deeper. It is an exploration o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54269356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to love this book.  I mean, it's Lovecraft - as a nerd and a fan of horror literature, I am practically required to love him.  But instead, I was mostly just bored.  Okay, scientific expedition runs into terrifying creatures in the Antarctic.  I am totally behind this idea!  But then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54715160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stop explaining why it's terrible and you shudder to keep writing and just explain what is terrible.<br/><br/>I got into it by the end. It's fun - there are big ideas and you want to keep reading to find out more. Basically it's an ill-fated antarctic expedition in the early 1930s that yields some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79533708">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[from the China Miéville introduction: <br/><br/>&quot;Lovecraft's is not a fiction of carefully structured plot so much as of ineluctable unfolding: it is a literature of the inevitability of weird. <br/>&quot;'My reason for writing stories,' Lovecraft says, 'is to give myself the satisfaction o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27980936">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Killer penguins? No, fortunately this book set in the southernmost climes of our lovely planet doesn't go in that direction (I would be heartbroken if it did, so I'm glad of it). It just ALMOST does. The expedition looking for preserved remains from epochs past would in all likelihood have found col...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13718828">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[H. P. Lovecraft is considered the father of modern supernatural horror stories, and I can see why from this novella.  This is the first &quot;modern&quot; horror story I've read and it held my attention throughout.  I don't know that it will inspire me to read more recent horror fiction, but I expec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13665636">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The giant albino blind penguins were the creepiest aspect. Not sure why - they just really spooked me. And lingering thoughts of the various ectomorphic creatures made it hard to watch the movie Aliens vs. Monsters (only half kidding). Truly bizarre and otherworldly story. Would have given it 5 star...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53477280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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