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A review by stevegoble
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
4.0
This Kindle edition is great. Well done, ChthulhuChick.com.
I run hot and cold on Lovecraft. His protagonists are dull and mostly interchangeable. He avoids dialogue like mice avoid cats. He loves antiquated words. He tells stories obliquely, often through the voice of someone relaying things that purportedly happened to someone else.
On the other hand, his vision of horror is more applicable to real life than the vampires, werewolves and ghosts of old -- it is a better metaphor for the doom we all fear. Vampires, werewolves, etc. can be dealt with, if you have smarts and pluck. There is not much you can do about Cthulhu.
Some of these stories are readable and effective, others are thought to enjoy. I like "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Silver Key," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "At The Mountains of Madness." I cannot abide "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kaddath."
I give this book four stars, mostly because the good stuff is memorable and because I do like Lovecraft's ideas and his influence. The sheer volume of stories is good, too; if you like weird fiction there is a lot of it here.
I run hot and cold on Lovecraft. His protagonists are dull and mostly interchangeable. He avoids dialogue like mice avoid cats. He loves antiquated words. He tells stories obliquely, often through the voice of someone relaying things that purportedly happened to someone else.
On the other hand, his vision of horror is more applicable to real life than the vampires, werewolves and ghosts of old -- it is a better metaphor for the doom we all fear. Vampires, werewolves, etc. can be dealt with, if you have smarts and pluck. There is not much you can do about Cthulhu.
Some of these stories are readable and effective, others are thought to enjoy. I like "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Silver Key," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "At The Mountains of Madness." I cannot abide "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kaddath."
I give this book four stars, mostly because the good stuff is memorable and because I do like Lovecraft's ideas and his influence. The sheer volume of stories is good, too; if you like weird fiction there is a lot of it here.