Rob's review
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Rob's review
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Rob's review
rating:
bookshelves:
ambulothanatophobia,
anthology,
to-re-read,
unfinished
recommended for: old school fright-mongers
Having never before read any H.P. Lovecraft, I held a deeply geeky shame. This was an author that was supposed to have helped define modern horror, helped define weird fiction and the truly-out-there sci-fi. The "Cthulhu Mythos" was something that I referenced frequently and yet ignorantly. All this time it was as if I had been brandishing a phony R'lyeh passport, muttering incoherently in the Elder Gods' tongue without any authority.
And since Great Cthulhu was the fulcrum here, the pivotal point of contention, I was certain to identify the Lovecraft collection at the library that actually held that short story. (Only doubling my shame for having imagined it to be a full-fledged novel for all these years...)
Working through this collection, I could see why Lovecraft became so well-known as a father-figure in modern sci-fi and horror. He seemed to have an odd relationship with his vocabulary. Reading his prose, I get the impression that Lovecraft latched onto a ha...more
And since Great Cthulhu was the fulcrum here, the pivotal point of contention, I was certain to identify the Lovecraft collection at the library that actually held that short story. (Only doubling my shame for having imagined it to be a full-fledged novel for all these years...)
Working through this collection, I could see why Lovecraft became so well-known as a father-figure in modern sci-fi and horror. He seemed to have an odd relationship with his vocabulary. Reading his prose, I get the impression that Lovecraft latched onto a ha...more
