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The Whisperer in Darkness
The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness.
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Paperback, 370 pages
Published
February 10th 2007
by Wordsworth Editions
(first published 1930)
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I am going to write something that may ban me from the esteem of many genre readers for life. So be it, I gotta say this: Lovecraft was not a good writer.
As evidence of this, I give you one of his most popular stories, "At the Mountains of Madness". The story starts off great with a narrative told in a cautious tone; the descriptions of arctic exploration; the ensuing discoveries that hint at great and awesome things - I really dug these ideas; and the subsequent violence t...more
As evidence of this, I give you one of his most popular stories, "At the Mountains of Madness". The story starts off great with a narrative told in a cautious tone; the descriptions of arctic exploration; the ensuing discoveries that hint at great and awesome things - I really dug these ideas; and the subsequent violence t...more
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Clearly Lovecraft was a genius, his ideas, his mythos, his visions were all vastly ahead of his time, totally bizarre constructions, and of all of them the Cthulhu stories are some of his most extreme examples. The ambiguity comes in his ability to consistently form these dreamlike visions into a coherent, readable story. When he is good, he is a genius but when he is bad....
This is the first Lovecraft collection put together by Wordsworth Editions in its immensely enjoyable Tales Of M...more
This is the first Lovecraft collection put together by Wordsworth Editions in its immensely enjoyable Tales Of M...more
This is a collection of classic Lovecraft short stories I read a while back. What I love about him, is how creepy he can make everything seem, the sense of dread and foreboding that his thick prose can create. This guy wrote decades ago, but his stuff can still give me nightmares. I especially like how, it's not about gore, or violence, or murders, or the kind of stuff modern slasher horror is about... Lovecraft's stories about about humanity realizing how tiny and frail it is, encountering powe...more
I was ready to be horrorized. I tried the first story, Dagon, it was flat. I tried the second one, The Nameless City, it was a longer flat read. I thought The Call of Cthulhu must be of something as the myth started from here. Halfway, my mind wondered as to the next design of dress I'm about to start.
I feel reading books are very much alike listening to music. Reading Kawabata's is like listening to Pachelbel's Canon. Reading Dostoevsky's is like listening to Haydn's Creation Orator...more
I feel reading books are very much alike listening to music. Reading Kawabata's is like listening to Pachelbel's Canon. Reading Dostoevsky's is like listening to Haydn's Creation Orator...more
This is a book of collected short stories - Lovecraft's "tales of mystery and the supernatural", and although I quite liked the three that I read, I didn't really feel the need to read any more of them, if you know what I mean. A bit samey? Might read one or two every so often when I feel like a dose of hellish black mires, troubled and dream-infested sleep, the distant baying of gigantic hounds and ruined and nameless cities. (PS If trying to pretend have read Lovecraft at parties, ma...more
First sentence: "Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end."
Last sentence: "For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and the hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley."
Of all the horror stories by Lovecraft, that I read sofar (2011),this was my favourite one.
Summary from Wikipedia:
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instru...more
Last sentence: "For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and the hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley."
Of all the horror stories by Lovecraft, that I read sofar (2011),this was my favourite one.
Summary from Wikipedia:
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instru...more
H.P. Lovecraft is as good as I remember him. Even as a kid, I realized his prose was a little over the top, but it's still damn good, and Lovecraft is a master of mood and "things that man was not supposed to know."
From an adult's perspective, it looks like Lovecraft is writing about the disappearance of the old Victorian order, and how destructive and frightening modernism is, from modern math, science, art, politics, and social conventions.
Great stuff and scar...more
From an adult's perspective, it looks like Lovecraft is writing about the disappearance of the old Victorian order, and how destructive and frightening modernism is, from modern math, science, art, politics, and social conventions.
Great stuff and scar...more
H.P. Lovecraftin tarinakokoelma "Kuiskaus pimeässä ja muita kertomuksia" sisältää kahdeksan legendaarisen kauhukirjailijan kirjoittamaa novellia vuosilta 1924-1931. Joukkoon mahtuvat muun muassa klassiset kertomukset "Cthulhun kutsu", "Dunwichin hirviö" ja allekirjoittaneen suosikki "Varjo Innsmouthin yllä".
Kaikki tarinat on suomennettu aikaisemmin, mutta ne yhteen kokoava uusintapainos on ollut enemmän kuin paikallaan. Kiitos vaan, Jalavan väki!
Kaikki tarinat on suomennettu aikaisemmin, mutta ne yhteen kokoava uusintapainos on ollut enemmän kuin paikallaan. Kiitos vaan, Jalavan väki!
When i started reading this, i have to re-read the story, coz i find it hard for me to swallow the language. haha. but the story from HP Lovecraft is so good. damn good. the horror i can feel it just by reading it. now wonder there are many followers of lovecraft.
Lovecraft uses too much purple prose. I read this to gain background for a Call of Cthulhu rpg adventure I want to run. Not sure if I would recommend this to someone who wasn't already a fan of HPL.
An excellent collection of some of Lovecraft's early "Cthulhu Mythos" stories, including some short ones, and some of his longest and best works as well. A nice, informative intro, too.
This story was written shortly after the discovery of Pluto, and Lovecraft endearingly wasted no time pinning down the new planet's identity to Yuggoth, home of The Elder Ones :-) There are some seriously mindbending celestial phenomena proposed here, part of what makes Lovecraft so unique and appealing to me. It is also yet another great dark, brooding, suspenseful tale where he reveals and holds back just enough to leave you with that delicious signature flavour of fear of the unknown.
This was my first essay into Lovecraft. I am not sure whether all of his fiction is so formulaic as this collection or whether instead it was a conscious effort of the editor to select similar stories in an effort to familiarize the reader with Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. In any case, the formula works well, though I enjoyed some more than others. One of Lovecraft's strategies is to heighten suspense by having his narrators seem reluctant to tell their horrifying tales. One might think this tact...more
I think these stories are starting to affect me. Last night I got nervous about turning off the lights. :-D
At any rate, this story is about the Mi-Go from Pluto, which had apparently just been discovered at the time of writing. I actually had to put down my reader for a day when I realized that the narrator, a Professor of Literature at Arkham University, pulled one of the most boneheaded stupid moves ever. There is no excuse really for this. However the story as a whole is very creepy...more
At any rate, this story is about the Mi-Go from Pluto, which had apparently just been discovered at the time of writing. I actually had to put down my reader for a day when I realized that the narrator, a Professor of Literature at Arkham University, pulled one of the most boneheaded stupid moves ever. There is no excuse really for this. However the story as a whole is very creepy...more
Viimeinkin pääsin käsiksi "Lovecraftin eksistentialistiseen kauhuun" ja hyvä niin. Rotat seinissä jäi pyörimään mielessä, Hautaholvissa muistutti enemmän perinteisempää kummitusjuttua ja rotuteoria-novellit hiukan hyytivät. Kuiskaus pimeässä ei varmasti ole rauhoittanut Pluton löytäneiden mieltä v. 1930...
A look at the "Other Worlds" from a distance, as the main character only gets second hand accounts of the mythos, multiverse and monsters.
Lots of great short stories and a few longer short stories that were decent. I really liked "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "Whisperer in the Darkness." "The Mountains of Madness" was very boring and it had a weak payoff.
Absolutely genus....Lovecraft always keeps you on edge, without giving to much away and slams you with a devastating ending. Definitely one of the best stories I have ever read-Lovecraft is a genre within himself.
very unique writing style. minimal nearly nonexistant dialog but the stories are works of art.
Jolie complitations de pas très jolies histoires.
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This book is really creeping me out. Tell me H.P. Lovecraft does not disturb you and I say you should be locked away somewhere where you cannot hurt anyone.
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