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jmaddren's review against another edition
4.0
3.75 Rounded up.
There are some great stories in this short story collection, the majority of them stayed faithful to the creepy Innsmouth atmosphere, however I would have liked to see more creepiness and less attempts to overly characterize characters who I couldn't really care about in several pages worth of a story. My least favourite story was the one with the pretentious painter and his holier than thou attitude, the ending felt rushed and it was the only Lovecraftian nod in the story, but it seemed more like a quick afterthought to conclude an awful character.
There are some great stories in this short story collection, the majority of them stayed faithful to the creepy Innsmouth atmosphere, however I would have liked to see more creepiness and less attempts to overly characterize characters who I couldn't really care about in several pages worth of a story. My least favourite story was the one with the pretentious painter and his holier than thou attitude, the ending felt rushed and it was the only Lovecraftian nod in the story, but it seemed more like a quick afterthought to conclude an awful character.
mike_brough's review
4.0
Every bit as good as the previous two volumes and features a couple of my favourite stories from the collection, You Don't Want To Know, The Chain and Into The Water.
oborozukyo's review
3.0
Good, not necessarily to my taste, would have been better to dip into it as read it straight through. So many fish things! It (obviously) got a bit repetitive. Some good stories in there though - unusually for a short story anthology, the hit rate was around 75% for me
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