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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book mostly because I love the movie Re-Animator which is based on Lovecrafts short story.  The other short stories in here are really good in a morbid kinda way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book as long ago as high school.  Lovecraft really captured my imagination.  Weird, weird stuff.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is like the twilight zone mixed whith emo poetry....strange stuff. Very desturbing...my only problam is all the big words make stupid boy go duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The greatest fear is fear of the unknown,&quot; said HP Lovecraft. I have never met a soul who did not...appreciate...the genius of Lovecraft's historical works. Cthulhu ftaghn!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great collection from master of horror. Not as many strong stories as the first one but &quot;At the Mountains of Madness&quot; is a masterpiece. Good stuff. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book although not as much as the other Lovecraft stories.  This has &quot;The Festival&quot; and &quot;At the Mountains of Madness&quot; which are classics.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;There is a melancholy, operatic grandeur in Lovecraft's most passionate work,&quot; writes Joyce Carol Oates in <em>The New York Review of Books,</em> &quot;... a curious elegiac poetry of unspeakable loss, of adolescent despair, and an existential loneliness so pervasive that it lingers in the reader's memory, like a dream, long after the rudiments of Lovecraftian plot have faded.&quot;  Del Rey has reprinted Lovecraft's stories in three large-format paperbacks. This third volume collects one poem, one story fragment, and 26 tales not included in the first two, including &quot;Herbert West--Reanimator,&quot; &quot;The Lurking Fear,&quot; &quot;Dagon,&quot; &quot;The Unnameable,&quot; and the classic short novel &quot;At the Mountains of Madness.&quot; Introduction by Barbara Hambly.  Beautiful cover art by surrealist John Jude Palencar.<br/><br/>Contents:<br/><br/>vii · The Man Who Loved His Craft · Barbara Hambly · in <br/>xi · Early Tales <br/>1 · The Beast in the Cave · ss The Vagrant Jun ’18 <br/>7 · The Alchemist · ss The United Amateur Nov ’16 <br/>15 · Poetry and the Gods · ss The United Amateur Sep ’20 <br/>22 · The Street · ss The Wolverine Dec ’20 <br/>27 · The Transition of Juan Romero · ss Marginalia, Arkham House, 1944 <br/>34 · The Book (A Fragment) · uw Leaves #2 ’38 <br/>37 · Dagon · ss The Vagrant Nov ’19; Weird Tales Oct ’23 <br/>42 · The Tomb · ss The Vagrant Mar ’22 <br/>52 · Memory [as by Lewis Theobald] · pm The United Co-Operative Jun ’19 <br/>53 · The White Ship · ss The United Amateur Nov ’19 <br/>59 · Arthur Jermyn [“Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family”] · ss The Wolverine Mar ’21 (+1) <br/>68 · The Temple · ss Weird Tales Sep ’25 <br/>80 · The Terrible Old Man · vi The Tryout Jul ’20 <br/>83 · The Crawling Chaos [as by Lewis Theobald, Jnr. and Elizabeth Neville Berkeley] · ss The United Co-Operative Apr ’21 <br/>91 · The Tree · ss The Tryout Oct ’21 <br/>95 · The Moon-Bog · ss Weird Tales Jun ’26 <br/>102 · Herbert West—Reanimator [“Grewsome Tales”] · gp Home Brew Feb-Jul ’22; From the Dark, ss Weird Tales Mar ’42; The Plague Demon, ss Weird Tales Jul ’42; Six Shots by Moonlight, ss Weird Tales Sep ’42; The Scream of the Dead, ss Weird Tales Nov ’42; The Horror from the Shadows, ss Weird Tales Sep ’43; The Tomb-Legions, ss Weird Tales Nov ’43 <br/>129 · The Lurking Fear · nv Home Brew Jan ’23 (+3) <br/>157 · The Unnamable · ss Weird Tales Jul ’25 <br/>164 · Imprisoned with the Pharoahs [as by Harry Houdini] · nv Weird Tales May-Jul ’24 <br/>189 · The Shunned House · nv Weird Tales Oct ’37 <br/>213 · He · ss Weird Tales Sep ’26 <br/>225 · The Horror at Red Hook · nv Weird Tales Jan ’27 <br/>245 · Cool Air · ss Tales of Magic and Mystery Mar ’28; Weird Tales Sep ’39 <br/>253 · Nathicana [as by Albert Frederick Willie] · pm The Vagrant Spr ’27 <br/>256 · At the Mountains of Madness · n. Astounding Feb ’36 (+2) <br/>349 · In the Walls of Eryx · nv Weird Tales Oct ’39 <br/>376 · The Evil Clergyman [“The Wicked Clergyman”] · ss Weird Tales Apr ’39]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apart from a few early shambling tales this has some of his gems: The Terrible Old Man and Cool Air being favorites.]]></body>
    
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