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A review by arthurbdd
A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Donald Tyson, Michael Shea, T.E.D. Klein, Jason V. Brock, James Wade, Rhys Hughes, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., S.T. Joshi, Stanley C. Sargent, Robert Barbour Johnson, Mearle Prout, Gemma Files, Lois H. Gresh, Walter C. DeBill Jr., Ramsey Campbell, David Ho, W.H. Pugmire, Thomas Ligotti, Cody Goodfellow, Caitlín R. Kiernan, C. Hall Thompson, Neil Gaiman, Mark Samuels, Patrick McGrath, Jonathan Thomas
4.0
For the most part this is a well-chosen selection of stories - combining fresh new tales with obscurities from yesteryear long since due a reprint. That said, the Michael Shea story Beneath the Beardmore is just kind of silly and sloppily thrown-together.
That may not be Shea's fault - it's a posthumous publication, since Shea died shortly before this was published - but nonetheless, that just makes me suspect that it was included out of a misguided impulse to pay tribute, not because it's actually a good tale, and so it drags down the collection's average.
Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/tales-of-the-cthulhu-mythos-and-its-imitators-part-7/
That may not be Shea's fault - it's a posthumous publication, since Shea died shortly before this was published - but nonetheless, that just makes me suspect that it was included out of a misguided impulse to pay tribute, not because it's actually a good tale, and so it drags down the collection's average.
Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/tales-of-the-cthulhu-mythos-and-its-imitators-part-7/