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    <body><![CDATA[I read a quarter of the tales in the book and only one (not a Cthulhu tale) particularly sticks with me a week later.  They were entertaining, the style light and strong, but all too much alike. By the fifth or sixth tale, they had become predictable, and predictable horror just isn't scary. Also, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50662877">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovecraft!  Burdened by poor word choice, clumsy with narrative, and hampered by psycho-sexual and racial issues by the bucketful, an asexual aristocrat from Providence wrote some of the most genuinely disturbing stories in American literature.  It's not everyone's cup of tea, but even if one doesn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/955416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, I didn't finish this. But I've read as much of it as I'm going to...YES, Alex, I read &quot;The Call of Cthulhu&quot;...It was okay. I like Lovecraft's style. The only story that <em>really</em> jumped out at me was the first one in this collection...I forget the title...but it actually sent a shiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60935982">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read about 1/2-2/3.  Had to stop in the middle of a story.  I was way too scare to finish.  Excellent, imaginative horror.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read one story in this book. That night I had the worst nightmare of all times. Someday I'll find the courage to read some more!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Think Poe, but with a sci-fi twist on the morbid and horrifying tales of grim human nature. There are ways Lovecraft sells out a bit as a writer - for example, many of his characters are overcome by madness or selective memory loss when it comes time to reveal the great mystery of any given story - ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1518235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It seemed good but I just couldn't get past the archaic language. It was like trying to read shakespeare or sumthn'. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this stuff when I was in a kid. Maybe rereading it will help me with my spooky adjective choice.]]></body>
    
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