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published
September 13th 1991
(first published 1971)
by Del Rey
binding
Mass Market Paperback, 224 pages
isbn
0345331052
(isbn13: 9780345331052)
description
Calm yourself. There are 20 terrorizing short tales of mirth and murder awaiting your inspection, created by the master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft. Pre...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
Someone in bed with the flu.
I'm not sure if this is the exact book. This story was included. I hadn't read Lovecraft before. I have to say I found it kind of silly. The stories are corny, formulaic, and orientalism and racism abound (Those sinister Russians! The evil Kurds of Brooklyn!). Stomach that. It was at least entertaining to read these when I was home sick one day, total escape into horrorsville. Interesting as an origin of modern horror.
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The Grandfather of Horror has some great ones. From the Mountains of Madness and Call of Cthulu to my fav. the Shadow over Innsmouth, Lovecraft paints a bleak picture of doom fated man left bereft and tiny against the the mighty expanse of huge, deathless space. Lots of interesting points could be made in the same vein of Shelly's Frankenstein, but regardless, the stories rock like a good death metal guitar solo.
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While H.P. Lovecraft’s name is indissolubly linked with tales of ancient, extraterrestrial races and the strange traces they left in antique New England towns, there was a bit more to his literary corpus. The Doom that Came To Sarnath collects a broad spectrum of Lovecraft tales, prose and poetry.
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Read in December, 2008
I hate this era of Lovecraft and could barley finish this book. However, I love me Lovecraft so I plan on revisiting these stories when I get over the Cthulhu myth.
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This collection has some really great stuff in it, especially "The Tree," "Polaris," "The Festival," and "The Nameless City."
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Read in January, 2001
I'm hard to scare
Stevie King novels bore the shit out of me
he don't know fear
this guy does long live cthulu
Stevie King novels bore the shit out of me
he don't know fear
this guy does long live cthulu
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Read my reviews of any Lovecraft book; a racist and anglophile, but good and scary none-the-less!
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A great collection of Lovecraft's "fantasy" style of writing, though horrific all the same.
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For me, it's worth it merely for the short story "The Other Gods".
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Read in January, 1975
One of my favorite writers when I was in High School
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