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The Horror At Red Hook (2004)

by H.P. Lovecraft(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1419166638 (ISBN13: 9781419166631)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Kessinger Publishing

review 1: Catch-up review #4! I listened to this one on Friday night as I was driving back from Philly after my business trip. It was dark, and I was alone in the car, so of course I'm like "Let's listen to some Lovecraft! :D"I have this weird thing about Lovecraft, though. I love the IDEA of Lovecraft's horror more than I like the reality of it. I just find the writing tedious at times. It's true. I said it. He was wordy. He'd use 4 words when one would do, and for me, that just bogs things down and distracts me and takes me out of the story. I want the meat and bones. I want to be terrified by the story, not bored by the overabundance of words used to convey it. But I will say that it's better on audio. I can just sit back and listen and not get aggravated by the wordiness. And th... moreis audiobook, read by Jim Donaldson and (I think) put out by Trout Lake Media, was a pretty good one to listen to because it used sound effects to set the tone and build the tension. Maybe the sound effects were a little distracting at times when they are louder than the reader, or in between sections where there's a loud building screech noise (typical in horror movies), but they do serve the purpose they were intended for. The creaking was particularly effective, and I liked it quite a lot. I did enjoy the story here too, but think that I would likely have enjoyed it a bit more if it was a little bit more streamlined. But I liked the format, meeting the investigator who is clearly disturbed by the events he's witnessed at Red Hook, and then learning about those events. I thought it was a creepy little story and maybe there's hope yet for Lovecraft and I! ;)
review 2: Not Lovecraft's best work, but still quite good a short story.The full horror is not jumping in your face at the end of the story (like in 'normal' Lovecraft stories), but rather in the previous to last chapter. This makes the overall feeling a bit more tame.The nice touch about this story is that the first page goes from 'normal' to 'strange' to 'downright scary'A Lovecraft classic. less

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