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The Call of Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft

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Aug 30, 2011 Lindsay rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult-fiction, america, science-fiction, gothic, supernatural, horror

I'm about half way through the complete works at the moment (one of my 2011 reading challenges :-D), and this short story contains many of the classic Lovecraft themes so I can see why it's a 'standard', but it doesn't strike me as one of his best works despite its fame. It lacks the baroque detail and atmosphere-drenched build-up to the inevitable nameless terrors of At the Mountains of Madness, and the rollocking psychedelic adventure that is The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It is Lovecraft ...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Jon rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, classics, horror

This is the first H.P. Lovecraft book I've read as I tend not to read horror , but I really enjoyed this and already have downloaded another. (In case you wondered, it ain't scary) ...more

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Jul 12, 2018 Noeli Cobaya Debiblioteca marked it as libros-que-tengo-en-formato-fisico · review of another edition

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