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onetrueceyton's review
4.0
There were of course some real gems in here, stories that restated and/or pushed the boundaries of the Mythos, that had me searching out authors' bibliographies. And then there was filler. The Ellison and the Zelazny are great pieces but had nothing to do with the rest of the anthology.
pamwinkler's review
3.0
I finally got this back from the library so I can type up my story reviews. There were some good stories, but a lot of them I'd read before.
The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson was really good.
Pickman's Modem by Lawrence Watt-Evans was amusing.
Shaft Number 247 by Basin Copper was interesting. I liked it.
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite is a good story. I've read it before, it's a wonderful adaptation/update of Lovecraft's The Hound
The Adder by Fred Chappell was interesting. I liked it.
Fat Face by Michael Shea was kind of unpleasant, but good.
The Big Fish by Kim Newman was good. I tend to like his stuff.
"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket...But by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!" by Joanna Russ was a pretty good story.
H.P.L by Gahan Wilson was interesting. It was kind of purple in places.
The Unthinkable by Bruce Sterling was interesting. I liked it, I think.
Black Man with a Horn by T.E.D Klein is a good story, pretty scary.
Love's Eldritch Ichor by Esther M. Frisner was pretty silly.
The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti is a fantastic story.
The Shadow on the Doorstep by James P. Blaylock was interesting, but didn't feel like it went much of anywhere.
Lord of the Land by Gene Wolfe was kind of confusing to me. I don't think I liked it.
The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell was kind of unpleasant.
On the Slab by Harlan Ellison was interesting, but it didn't go where I thought it was going to go. I'm not sure it really fit in the story collection.
24 Views of Mt. Fuji by Housai by Robert Zelazny was interesting, but also didn't have a lot to do with Lovecraftian horror or anything like that.
The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson was really good.
Pickman's Modem by Lawrence Watt-Evans was amusing.
Shaft Number 247 by Basin Copper was interesting. I liked it.
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite is a good story. I've read it before, it's a wonderful adaptation/update of Lovecraft's The Hound
The Adder by Fred Chappell was interesting. I liked it.
Fat Face by Michael Shea was kind of unpleasant, but good.
The Big Fish by Kim Newman was good. I tend to like his stuff.
"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket...But by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!" by Joanna Russ was a pretty good story.
H.P.L by Gahan Wilson was interesting. It was kind of purple in places.
The Unthinkable by Bruce Sterling was interesting. I liked it, I think.
Black Man with a Horn by T.E.D Klein is a good story, pretty scary.
Love's Eldritch Ichor by Esther M. Frisner was pretty silly.
The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti is a fantastic story.
The Shadow on the Doorstep by James P. Blaylock was interesting, but didn't feel like it went much of anywhere.
Lord of the Land by Gene Wolfe was kind of confusing to me. I don't think I liked it.
The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell was kind of unpleasant.
On the Slab by Harlan Ellison was interesting, but it didn't go where I thought it was going to go. I'm not sure it really fit in the story collection.
24 Views of Mt. Fuji by Housai by Robert Zelazny was interesting, but also didn't have a lot to do with Lovecraftian horror or anything like that.
arthurbdd's review
4.0
Mostly excellent, though somewhat marred by the inclusion of some stories which are either outright parody or are really just straight science fiction with no horror elements; if I'm specifically buying a cosmic horror anthology, I expect to get cosmic horror. Nonetheless, the hit/miss ratio is pretty good. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/tales-of-the-cthulhu-mythos-and-its-imitators-part-3/
theartolater's review
4.0
Another Lovecraftian anthology, but this one better than most. The first story in particular, The Barrens, is probably one of my new favorite Mythos stories, and there are some good and some bad. Some striking things:
* The best stories, The Barrens excepted, were among the goofiest ones. There was one about a possessed modem that was quite amusing, and one where Cthulhu and friends are assisting with a romance writer's career that cracked me up.
* The stories that hit me the least, surprisingly, were by the authors I already knew. The Poppy Z. Brite offering felt out of place, and the Zelazny one was just strange (and not in the "of course it's strange" way).
Still, a worthy addition to the canon overall. Glad I scooped this up and found a number of good tales along the way.
* The best stories, The Barrens excepted, were among the goofiest ones. There was one about a possessed modem that was quite amusing, and one where Cthulhu and friends are assisting with a romance writer's career that cracked me up.
* The stories that hit me the least, surprisingly, were by the authors I already knew. The Poppy Z. Brite offering felt out of place, and the Zelazny one was just strange (and not in the "of course it's strange" way).
Still, a worthy addition to the canon overall. Glad I scooped this up and found a number of good tales along the way.
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