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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
Preferred reading this horror story to the live one last night.
I have been wanting to read Lovecraft for awhile. After all, I feel like it’s necessary for me to maintain the title of horror buff. He is after all the inspiration of many horror stories to follow. The lyrical imagine of Lovecraft is probably unmatched, but for me, he is not my cup of tea.
I did some shifting around of my prompts, so this now stands as my short stories (once The Raven, which is now “under 200 pages”) and H.P. Lovecraft prompts
I did some shifting around of my prompts, so this now stands as my short stories (once The Raven, which is now “under 200 pages”) and H.P. Lovecraft prompts
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Racism
Moderate: Incest
I am reading this as a project to do a blind read through of all of Lovecraft, so I can make any kind of connections that other authors may have inferred, without their influence. This is the second book in that project and we delve far more into the mythos in this book than in "The Doom that came to Sarnath". There are specific mentions of Great Old ones (and Deep ones) and how they actually correlate to the cults that worship them.
Lovecraft is a master at atmosphere and theme, but he's an amateur at dialogue and action. Most of his stories are atmospheric romps, that are told from a narrator's persepctive, after the fact. This precludes most action from taking place, but here, there are a few stories that actually have that action, and it's a little spastic. Lovecraft is so specific that it he tries to describe everything in a room, while action is happening, and it becomes very confusing. Likewise his dialogue is a little trite. You can tell that he spent most of his time creating and not as much time, interacting with others.
Still, super fun to read. If you're a fan of horror, I would jump into this one (possibly skip "The Doom that came to Sarnath"). Moving onto "At The Mountains of Madness" next.
Lovecraft is a master at atmosphere and theme, but he's an amateur at dialogue and action. Most of his stories are atmospheric romps, that are told from a narrator's persepctive, after the fact. This precludes most action from taking place, but here, there are a few stories that actually have that action, and it's a little spastic. Lovecraft is so specific that it he tries to describe everything in a room, while action is happening, and it becomes very confusing. Likewise his dialogue is a little trite. You can tell that he spent most of his time creating and not as much time, interacting with others.
Still, super fun to read. If you're a fan of horror, I would jump into this one (possibly skip "The Doom that came to Sarnath"). Moving onto "At The Mountains of Madness" next.
This was scary and had a good ending but it took a while to get going.
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (1985)