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Awix (3310 KP) rated Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft in Books

Mar 15, 2019 (Updated Mar 15, 2019)  
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
8.7 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
Dang-near essential for anyone interested in the 20th century horror story, this volume does what it says on the front and collects the most significant fiction of H.P. Lovecraft's career. Lovecraft has a unique and idiosyncratic writing style (and that's putting it mildly) and he's not afraid to insert his deeply unpleasant racist views into his stories. However, no single figure has been more influential in the development of the fantasy-horror genre in the last century.

Lovecraft's best stories take the scientific discoveries of his time and use them to summon up an extraordinary sense of cosmic dread: the vastness of the universe and the primordial origins of the human race become the stuff of genuine nightmare. All the key stories are here - the famous Call of Cthulhu, of course, along with others that are still massively influential, such as The Colour Out of Space and At the Mountains of Madness. Lovecraft wrote the book on a certain kind of horror, and this volume is pretty much it. Some of the stories are minor works, but the best ones here are epochal.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Black Wings of Cthulhu 6 in Books

Mar 2, 2020  
Black Wings of Cthulhu 6
Black Wings of Cthulhu 6
S.T. Joshi | 2018 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Another mixed bag of Lovecraft-inspired fiction and poetry. As usual with this sort of thing, some of the stories are basically in-jokey games of Spot-the-Yithian, while others suffer from the authors trying too hard to bring their own agenda to the HPL milieu. Some reasonably good stuff apart from this, though, assuming you like pulpy horror-fantasy. Editor S.T. Joshi gets very precious, even perhaps a touch pretentious, about this stuff given how cheesy and broad-brush some of it is. The wheat-chaff ratio isn't brilliant but it passes the time.