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Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany Of The Macabre (2011)

by H.P. Lovecraft(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0575099356 (ISBN13: 9780575099357)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Gollancz

review 1: This is kind of a HP Lovecraft left-overs book featuring various poems, short stories, and an essay he wrote on Supernatural Horror In Literature. The essay is a great addition and features comments on his favourite authors at the time. I actually liked his poems a lot, which I've never read before. Very descriptive and they creep in your brain. His 'Fungi from Yuggoth' poems were awesome and it's up there as one of my favourite works by him. Love it! Anyway, this is a perfect buy for the hardcore fan or someone who never read his material before. Great mixed bag.
review 2: I'll just throw myself out into the open and list two of many things that I find are very overrated. These are that beloved band 'The Beatles' and that beloved author 'H.P.Lovecraft'. Goin... moreg off this compilation, which I admit is the only one I have read, I thought that Lovecraft was very inferior to such others legends as Poe, Bierce, LeFanu, and Stoker. Some stories were very good, but most of them were just so vague and fantastical that I found them to be silly and rather pointless. They were not scary, they were just (as the title suggests)...weird. It surprises me, incidentally,that S.T.Joshi (a fucking Lovecraft fanatic) criticizes Stephen King so harshly for his stories being implausible and unexplained, when they are nothing compared to some of the dreamlike shit that Lovecraft wrote. Funnily enough, the most enjoyable excerpt of this book is a non-fiction article written by Lovecraft himself, in which he modestly admires all the other horror writers of his time, and displays a keen understanding of the horror genre which seems equal to King's 'Danse Macabre'. It's a shame, I think, that he didn't apply this knowledge to his own stories... less

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