The Colour Out of Space
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The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these...
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Dunwich Horror in Books
Dec 16, 2020
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The Dunwitch horror
By H. P. Lovecraft
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A mysterious bandaged stranger in an English village turns out to be a mad scientist, who has discovered how to turn himself invisible and plans to tak over the world.
This one bored me a little I know and yes I said it bored me!! Although I still find it fascinating how Lovecraft makes you think you have read a full length novel in just 7 chapters! I’m gradually starting to understand more and more of his work!
From Beyond (1986)
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Two scientists create a device intended to stimulate the pineal gland of the human brain,...
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Call of Cthulhu in Books
Nov 23, 2020
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The call of Cthulhu
By H. P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of even the Great OldOnes.
This is the one everyone seems to go on about! I’m so far loving my Lovecraft journey. This is my favourite so I can see why suggest this as the first one you read, I’m not sure you should as I’ve read a few of Lovecrafts short stories and I’m finally getting to grips on how he writes. Which I think is why I enjoyed this more the I thought.
The Whisperer in Darkness
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The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Festival in Books
Oct 1, 2020
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The Festival
by H P Lovecraft
The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.
The story is set at Christmas time: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind." An unnamed narrator is making his first visit to Kingsport, Massachusetts, an "ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten."
I am still quite new to reading Lovecrafts work the things that strike me so much about him is his imagination and the way he translates what’s in his head to paper and does it so well! I’m really enjoying these little novellas!
I know not a huge review but I find myself getting bored with long winded explanations of how you should
Or shouldn't feel! With a classical author like this the work tends to speak for itself!
Black Wings of Cthulhu #4
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This fourth instalment of S. T. Joshi's acclaimed Black Wings series features seventeen stories that...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Shadow Over Innsmouth in Books
Mar 30, 2021
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A shadow over Innsmouth
By H. P Lovecraft
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The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a large town, but lately fallen into disrepair). The townspeople worship Cthulhu and Dagon, a Philistine deity incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos.
He certainly has way of telling stories. This one was interesting and kinda gross I could almost smell the stench. One of the better ones I’ve read so far.