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    <body><![CDATA[H. P. Lovecraft is a peculiar writer. His stories are extremely predictable. The first-person narrator, a sober man of reason and science, will halfway through the story start noticing something odd about his surroundings: &quot;It was almost as though [horrifying revelation from the end of the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24883781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written horror that many imitate (ahem, Stephen King)  but few can pull off. The real horror of Lovecraft isn't the scariness of the monsters or the gore, but concept that we are pointless blips of dust on the gaping maw of a chaotic, ageless, indifferent universe that constantly destroy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/167585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried reading this book about a year ago but, I ended up leaving it in my bio lab and I never saw it again. Fortunately, my roommate's boyfriend is a big Lovecraft fan and let me borrow his entire collection. I glad he did.<br/><br/>I enjoy a good horror story on occasion and Lovecraft's are ok....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21600169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After years of hearing references to Lovecraft and the mythos he created, I finally decided to check it out.  I'm about half way through this collection of short stories.  It's easy to see how influential he's been to modern horror writers.  For instance, many of his tales take place in or mention a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20770492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay.  so this is the third time i've read this book in the last 10 or 12 years, and every time, it almost feels completely new.  it's just so dense that it takes a long time to read and what you absorb one time really only makes up a fraction of what you remember.  maybe after reading it 3 or 4 mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5580097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No blood and guts here- Lovecraft trades in the &quot;creepy&quot; not the violent. He populates his universe with alien intelligences beyond human description, let alone comprehension. He is a master at constructing the ominous atmosphere of elusive and dimly-comprehended threats, always just on th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44666393">more...</a>]]></body>
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