Sam's review
Lovecraft Tales by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Lovecraft! Burdened by poor word choice, clumsy with narrative, and hampered by psycho-sexual and racial issues by the bucketful, an asexual aristocrat from Providence wrote some of the most genuinely disturbing stories in American literature. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but even if one doesn't enjoy his eldritch horrors from beyond the wall of sleep, they can at least appreciate how his stories represent a certain kind of paranoia: one that could have only been penned by an exceedingly well-read, exceedingly poorly socialized xenophobe from the cloistered halls of New England. Highlights: "The Call of Cthulu", "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", and, for its absolutely ridiculous xenophobia and racism, "The Horror at Red Hook".
