A review by theneverendingtbr
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales by Les Edwards, Stephen Jones, H.P. Lovecraft

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

Excellent collection of Lovecraft's stories, you've got most of his best ones in this collection; but it's such a big and somewhat cumbersome book.

Took me years to get through it, bought it in 2014 (crazy I know) but obviously that wasn't continuous reading, I'd read a story from it and leave it for ages with the bookmark in; he can be difficult to read sometimes due to his writing style - it's slow-paced and sometimes difficult for me to interpret because sometimes it seems to me like he starts rambling and I'm like..what's going on?

But I've been on a Lovecraft kick lately and I'm glad I finally finished most of his work, moving onto Eldritch Tales soon and that's me completed all of his fiction - as far as I know.

My favourite stories in Necronomicon were..

'The Rats in the Walls' 

'The Tomb'

'The Dunwich Horror'

'The Shunned House'

'At the Mountains of Madness'