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Cthulhu Tales: Chaos of the Mind by Michael Alan Nelson, Brian Augustyn, William A. Messner-Loebs
midnight_voss's review against another edition
2.0
Interesting concept, but most of the stories are too short, too flat, and not creative enough to really be interesting. Probably the consequence of a long anthology in which the “twist” is always omg CTHULHU!! And some that might have given a good surprise pull their punches without showing the truly scary bits.
This tends to be the problem with short story anthologies as well, when dealing in Lovecraftian mythos. But those have a better chance at being satisfying.
Best stories: “Are You There, Cthulhu? It’s Me, Margaret” and “The Oddly Amorous Phineas Flynn.”
I liked “The Hiding Place,” “On the Wagon,” and “The Awakening,” but they’re just too underdeveloped to give us the creeping dread.
This tends to be the problem with short story anthologies as well, when dealing in Lovecraftian mythos. But those have a better chance at being satisfying.
Best stories: “Are You There, Cthulhu? It’s Me, Margaret” and “The Oddly Amorous Phineas Flynn.”
I liked “The Hiding Place,” “On the Wagon,” and “The Awakening,” but they’re just too underdeveloped to give us the creeping dread.
adorkablyrini's review against another edition
2.0
This is actually volume 2 in the series... just FYI.
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