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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
I feel like the front page of p*rnhub would straight up kill this narrator.
I definitely should've paid more attention to my reading, but my mind just wasn't there. I did really liked the prose and the descriptions were good - I just didn't spend time imagining it all in my head, so there wasn't much of an impact. This is definitely a "me" problem, so I can't fault the stories for that. I could sense the potential, yet still, it went over my head. Maybe a different mood is the key.
Middling tale, for Lovecraft. Family isolates itself and inbreeds until it becomes white-furred apes, all with the same mismatched eyes that the human ancestors had. This is justification for blowing up a mountain. Okay, so, the apes go around eating people, so clearly they need a more isolated habitat.
Still more plausible than going to warp 10 making Janeway devolve into a lizard.
Still more plausible than going to warp 10 making Janeway devolve into a lizard.
This was like a less scarier version of wrong turn damnit.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Wow. Lovecraft's eugenics and biological determinism really come through in this story. It's legitimately scary, but also tells us more about the MC/Lovecraft than any of the other themes or characters.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism
Read as part of [b:The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft|28259982|The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft|H.P. Lovecraft|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1456092177l/28259982._SX50_.jpg|12926020]
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
The Lurking Fear was what drew me into this one. I enjoyed the suspense, the accentuating sense of mystery and horror, and it's clear why Lovecraft and his fictional universe stand out as one of the pillars of the horror genre. I found it very impressive how Derleth mirrors Lovecraft's writing - it's almost uncanny, that if the book had not stated discreetly in the copyrights section the stories' respective authors, I would be surprised had I been told they were written by different people. Of course, Lovecraft tends to be rather philosophical and introspective in his own tales and this is the salient feature which distinguishes them - they seem to be less plot driven, no, to put it in another way, it's not only the incidents which seem to matter but the implications behind the phenomena, if indeed they were true (as in the tales they are very much so to the protagonists). It shows because Lovecraft seems to devote many lines of musings to these assortments. (Other than that I found it a challenge to do so without much help from a reference page.) That is why I liked them the best. Perhaps The Lurking Fear was the first story of the anthology, and that explains why I loved it most out of all of the listed, or maybe it worked the other way around (in that it was put first because its quality stands out). Either way no harm done and much enjoyment ensues. Reading it intermittently across a couple of days is recommended as one's familiarity grows with the basic 'template' of each tale, it becomes a little tiring to sit through one after another.