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Incredibly vivid and imaginative but not necessarily scary and in fact is a bit silly when you think about it. There are these great old ones who seem like monstrous starfish type creatures from space who are animal and vegetable, and they built a giant elaborate city where they carved art and made statues about their entire history including weather updates and the time their slave species rose up against them and were fought back into subjugation and of course Lovecraft being Lovecraft he is clearly on the side of the wise heroic slavers not the enslaved race who are truly monstrous. Oh and multiple penguin based jump scares.

ria_sedai's review against another edition

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dark inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No

3.5

weejman33's review against another edition

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3.0

I would rather have a faithful adaptation than the shithouse film that is Prometheus.

youngthespian42's review against another edition

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3.0

I have gotten deep into Arkham Horror Card Game and I decided to go to the source material for my upcoming campaign.

Man, was this text a slog. Obviously with it being an older text, the language is a barrier, but this was a struggle on top of that. The narrator feels like he is writing an anthropological field report as much as he is writing a story. This is the best and worst parts of this work. At times the detail into the creatures is so exciting and at other times its just tedious.

Definitely interesting to learn the roots of cosmic horror and I will keep venturing into Lovecraft but I definitely will need some time.

vmascetti's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

jcc23's review against another edition

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2.0

Demasiadas descripciones en esta obra de Lovecraft. Cuando se centra en desarrollar la trama la historia repunta, pero sucede a cuenta gotas. Mayormente el autor se centra en describir esculturas y bajorrelieves con rigor científico, pero que en definitiva no suman nada a la trama. Recomendable solo para aficionados.

macker305's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

matthewthe38th's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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