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3.95 AVERAGE
Dreams in the Witch House had me quite spooked. It was the little rat-familiar that did it. Mountains of Madness dragged a bit for me, but I did like the concept.
Antes deste livro só havia lido The Call of Cthulhu do Lovecraft, porque o tinha achado muito racista nunca mais me atrevi outra obra dele, até ver o documentário Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2008) que dentre as participações estão Gaiman, Del Toro e Carpenter dizendo que ele abandonara na maturidade todo esse ranço xenófobo e racista, por isso dei uma nova chance aqui e fiquei feliz com o que encontrei.
Nessa edição da L&PM constam as estórias At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Statement of Randolph Carter e The Shunned House, dois quais o primeiro é o mais notável, talvez por ter influenciado Alien e The Thing from another World (como bem a versão do Carpenter, é claro).
O que mais salta aos olhos na escrita de Lovecraft é o seu potencial barroco descritivo, seus exercícios de descrição são altamente visuais, talvez por isso mesmo o cinema se interesse tanto por ele.
Nessa edição da L&PM constam as estórias At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Statement of Randolph Carter e The Shunned House, dois quais o primeiro é o mais notável, talvez por ter influenciado Alien e The Thing from another World (como bem a versão do Carpenter, é claro).
O que mais salta aos olhos na escrita de Lovecraft é o seu potencial barroco descritivo, seus exercícios de descrição são altamente visuais, talvez por isso mesmo o cinema se interesse tanto por ele.
The Francois Baranger editions are bound to go down as the definitive, most astonishing publications of Lovecraft's work. They benefit not just from the stunning images themselves, but the edition's design - the way the text and paintings are integrated, the choices of images, the folio size of the book. Its possible somebody may someday publish and better version of this story, but I'm having a hard time imagining it.
I picked up At the Mountains of Madness because all the hot rumors are that there are connections between it and Season 4 of HBO's True Detective, "Night Country."
It's the first reading of any Lovecraft I've ever done.
DAMN, can he write for a long long time about the details of the expedition and what the narrator is seeing. On the one hand, the detailed descriptions certainly help the reader to know what the narrator is looking at. On the other hand, I generally prefer a lot more showing than telling. The thing that saves this particular "show me instead of telling me" piece is that it's basically a travelogue wherein the travel went WOEFULLY awry.
This remains a classic creepy read.
Lovecraft was an unabashed racist and that's so damned problematic. You can read a lot about that elsewhere.
It's the first reading of any Lovecraft I've ever done.
DAMN, can he write for a long long time about the details of the expedition and what the narrator is seeing. On the one hand, the detailed descriptions certainly help the reader to know what the narrator is looking at. On the other hand, I generally prefer a lot more showing than telling. The thing that saves this particular "show me instead of telling me" piece is that it's basically a travelogue wherein the travel went WOEFULLY awry.
This remains a classic creepy read.
Lovecraft was an unabashed racist and that's so damned problematic. You can read a lot about that elsewhere.
This book was another semi-random pick from the "1001 Books" list. Before reading it, I looked up a plot synopsis and was a bit worried that it would be too scary for me. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the book.
It's about an expedition to Antarctica where some strange things are discovered. The first part of the story tells about the actual expedition and was pretty interesting. There is a lot of detailed description of Antarctica and extremely cold weather scientific study, which might be too slow for some people. I liked it and was interested.
In the next part of the story, half of the team makes some interesting discoveries. I thought this part was very interesting too and, again, had a lot of detail. There definitely was some suspense throughout the entire middle third of the book, but I think that was more because I knew a bit about the story before reading it.
The last third had a lot of detailed and tied back to the Cthulhu mythos that HP Lovecraft is famous for. It was interesting and there were definitely a few somewhat eerie and suspenseful parts.
I was pleasantly surprised by the story. It was not as scary in a modern-day horror story some of way, but more suspenseful and eerie. I don't think I'll read any more Lovecraft, but I thought this story was worth the read.
It's about an expedition to Antarctica where some strange things are discovered. The first part of the story tells about the actual expedition and was pretty interesting. There is a lot of detailed description of Antarctica and extremely cold weather scientific study, which might be too slow for some people. I liked it and was interested.
In the next part of the story, half of the team makes some interesting discoveries. I thought this part was very interesting too and, again, had a lot of detail. There definitely was some suspense throughout the entire middle third of the book, but I think that was more because I knew a bit about the story before reading it.
The last third had a lot of detailed and tied back to the Cthulhu mythos that HP Lovecraft is famous for. It was interesting and there were definitely a few somewhat eerie and suspenseful parts.
I was pleasantly surprised by the story. It was not as scary in a modern-day horror story some of way, but more suspenseful and eerie. I don't think I'll read any more Lovecraft, but I thought this story was worth the read.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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
La casa maldita y Los sueños de la casa de la bruja fueron mis historias favoritas, aunque son los "y otros relatos" tienen una atmosfera mucho más tenebrosa, describen de mejor manera el horror de los personajes y no son tan descriptivos del ambiente como la historia principal.
En las montañas de la locura me resulto una narración sumamente pesada por la necesidad constante de describir de manera extensa y exhaustiva el ambiente, la naturaleza, los objetos y la atmosfera, entiendo que trata de ser un diario o reseña para desalentar nuevas expediciones, pero sería mejor enfocarse en el peligro real y crear el ambiente de horror, que describir como es una montaña escarpada y llena de nieve.
En las montañas de la locura me resulto una narración sumamente pesada por la necesidad constante de describir de manera extensa y exhaustiva el ambiente, la naturaleza, los objetos y la atmosfera, entiendo que trata de ser un diario o reseña para desalentar nuevas expediciones, pero sería mejor enfocarse en el peligro real y crear el ambiente de horror, que describir como es una montaña escarpada y llena de nieve.
H.P. Lovecraft is described as the twentieth century's greatest master of the classic horror tale. Unfortunately I was so bored the book helped me to fall asleep on six occassions. That was when I decided to give up my attempts for now and place it back on the bookshelf.
I think this would be an awesome audio book however and if I find on I would pick it up. There were too many mentions to random people and events that I would have to constantly look up to understand the context of the writting and that would bog down any interest I may have had for this book.
I think this would be an awesome audio book however and if I find on I would pick it up. There were too many mentions to random people and events that I would have to constantly look up to understand the context of the writting and that would bog down any interest I may have had for this book.
This was my first venture into the “terrorscapes” of H. P. Lovecraft. Honestly, I tried reading this book three different times and couldn’t get through the first story – At the Mountains of Madness. The story has a VERY slow build up and sometimes gets too bogged down in the scientific descriptions of alien specimens. Eventually though, a little over halfway, I was finally really into the story. It started to get really spooky, especially near the end. If you were getting stuck like I was, I suggest you power through since it has a good ending.
The other stories still involved monsters, witches, and the supernatural. This is the only Lovecraft book I’ve read so maybe it’s my small sample size, but most of the stories dealt with a protagonist becoming obsessed with some supernatural concept or experience. Naturally, they then needed to ‘find the truth.’
My favorite story was actually the shortest one – The Statement of Randolph Carter. It did a good job of creeping me out in just a handful of pages.
My favorite character was by far Brown Jenkin from The Dreams in the Witch House. The character is the witch’s familiar and is a grotesque-looking humanoid rat. The sheer grossness made him my favorite. I’ve also started referring to my Maine Coon cat as “Brown Jenkin” whenever she is up to no good and I can see her out of the corner of my eye causing mischief.
Overall, these are really short creepy stories worth giving a shot around Halloween.
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The other stories still involved monsters, witches, and the supernatural. This is the only Lovecraft book I’ve read so maybe it’s my small sample size, but most of the stories dealt with a protagonist becoming obsessed with some supernatural concept or experience. Naturally, they then needed to ‘find the truth.’
My favorite story was actually the shortest one – The Statement of Randolph Carter. It did a good job of creeping me out in just a handful of pages.
My favorite character was by far Brown Jenkin from The Dreams in the Witch House. The character is the witch’s familiar and is a grotesque-looking humanoid rat. The sheer grossness made him my favorite. I’ve also started referring to my Maine Coon cat as “Brown Jenkin” whenever she is up to no good and I can see her out of the corner of my eye causing mischief.
Overall, these are really short creepy stories worth giving a shot around Halloween.
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adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced