Reviews - Los mitos de Cthulhu

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Los mitos de Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft

3.81 AVERAGE

dylan_loves_classics's review against another edition

Lovecraft has some great moments and ideas, but the stories quickly get repetitive. The way he dehumanizes BIPOC is more off putting than his horror.

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truncarlos's review against another edition

4.0

Primer y muy muy satiafactorio acercamiento a Lovecraft. Contiene los relatos "La llamada de Cthulhu", "El horror de Dunwich" y "Las ratas en las paredes".

Definitivamente, es un tipo de misterio, mal rollete y mitología que me atrae mucho. Seguiré leyendo.

tomleetang's review against another edition

3.0

After having read this collection of stories by Lovecraft I cannot honestly say I am a fan of his soi-disant cosmicism. His writing to me seems second rate compared to earlier works by Gothic authors like Sheridan Le Fanu or Edgar Allan Poe. At the same time, reading his writing it really struck me how much of modern horror seems to take its cue from Lovecraft.

While I won't be counting Lovecraft among my favorite authors anytime soon, I did really enjoy some of his stories, particularly The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Dunwich Horror, both of which seem to presage the modern movie obsession with the idea that the backwoods of America are home to terrifying cults/murderers/general oddities.

jamsl94's review against another edition

1.5

I couldn’t get into this. There are some good ideas but it felt very slow paced.
And very racist at times.
I did like the Whisperer in Darkness the best

myrtle_floof's review against another edition

With this being a bundle if you read them all one after the other they blend together. None of them really stood out and most of them were something along the lines of ''and I was so afraid that I could never describe the horrors that I've seen'' which gets really boring after 3 stories.