Tony's review
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
I don't know why I picked this up, but I am so glad that I did. There is a cosmic horror/Lovecraft screenwriting contest at the end of the summer that I think I'll send a submission; and this book put me in the right frame of mind.
Reading this made me remember what King said about Lovecraft. Uncle Steve said that old HP had a real flair for description, but wrote terrible dialogue. Most of the stories that I read avoided dialogue all together.
That tickled me more than tales of ancient gods mucking with mankind's history/sanity.
Tony's review
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Tony's review
rating:
I don't know why I picked this up, but I am so glad that I did. There is a cosmic horror/Lovecraft screenwriting contest at the end of the summer that I think I'll send a submission; and this book put me in the right frame of mind.
Reading this made me remember what King said about Lovecraft. Uncle Steve said that old HP had a real flair for description, but wrote terrible dialogue. Most of the stories that I read avoided dialogue all together.
That tickled me more than tales of ancient gods mucking with mankind's history/sanity.
