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A review by bubblesuns
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
1.0
Read The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and At the Mountains of Madness. Calling it quits here. Went into this a huge fan of Lovecraftian work and excited to delve into its origins. Ho boy did this disappoint.
I understood that Lovecraft himself was a horrible person but I wasn’t prepared for just how deeply his racism would permeate the stories themselves. Combined with the mind numbingly boring prose (seriously we do not need an exact map of all the streets in Innsmouth during the escape) and dull protagonists, I despised these stories.
Only positive is that talented people made good stuff out of his ideas. And that he died penniless.
I understood that Lovecraft himself was a horrible person but I wasn’t prepared for just how deeply his racism would permeate the stories themselves. Combined with the mind numbingly boring prose (seriously we do not need an exact map of all the streets in Innsmouth during the escape) and dull protagonists, I despised these stories.
Only positive is that talented people made good stuff out of his ideas. And that he died penniless.