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I’ve long been waiting to get to read a H.P. Lovecraft story for years. I read Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” a few years back and loved it, and hearing that there were similarities to Blackwood and Lovecraft, I was looking forward to “The Call of the Cthulhu.”
Lovecraft sets the stage with such a powerful, gripping opening sentence that not only forebodes danger and peril, but certainly depicts a feeling of a other-worldly presence in the natural world: “We live on a placid island of ignora ...more
Lovecraft sets the stage with such a powerful, gripping opening sentence that not only forebodes danger and peril, but certainly depicts a feeling of a other-worldly presence in the natural world: “We live on a placid island of ignora ...more
Read with 'Catching up on the Classics' for the October 2017 short story.
I think its fair to say I didn't enjoy this, which is odd, because I love all kinds of modern takes on Lovecraft's work, I was honestly expecting to enjoy this.
One of my issues is that Lovecraft is repetative, once you've read one of his stories (and I've read a few), there's really no point in reading any more. I thought that this, his most famous tale, might be different but sadly it wasn't.
Some of the more famous lines f ...more
I think its fair to say I didn't enjoy this, which is odd, because I love all kinds of modern takes on Lovecraft's work, I was honestly expecting to enjoy this.
One of my issues is that Lovecraft is repetative, once you've read one of his stories (and I've read a few), there's really no point in reading any more. I thought that this, his most famous tale, might be different but sadly it wasn't.
Some of the more famous lines f ...more
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