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Lovecraft Unbound (2009)

by Ellen Datlow(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1595821465 (ISBN13: 9781595821461)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dark Horse Comics

review 1: A mostly entertaining collection of stories, with three real treasures: 'The Crevasse' and 'In the Black Mill' are excellent, but top of the pile is the unique and brilliant tale which is 'Mongoose'. Sadly, it's let down by three or four stories which are truly dreadful in their dullness. I won't name and shame, since it's a matter of personal taste, but a small minority of tales were very poorly written indeed. Still a good collection overall, however, and well worth a read.
review 2: I really wanted to like this book, and I usually love Mythos stories by other writers. The Mythos is so badass that it's kind of hard to fuck it up. But these stories, mostly they had nothing at all to do with Lovecraft. I know that one of the stated aims of the editor in ... morethe introduction was to, you know, see how far they could go with Lovecraft, but after a certain point it just becomes supernatural fiction, and you get the feeling that this book was named Lovecraft Unbound to get it to sell. On top of the stories having little to nothing to do with Lovecraft, most of them were not good at all, very amateur, that's the feeling I got from a lot of these stories. There were some badass exceptions. Caitlin R Kiernan was his/her usually great self, but referenced to many other writers in his/her story. Michael Chabon was great, Joyce Carol Oates was great, Gemma Files, William Browning Spencer, and there were a couple of writers I read for the first time that I liked, but overall, not worth the effort. less

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