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A review by oppilif
The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3 by H.P. Lovecraft
3.0
(and you could probably tell this about Lovecraft himself)
Each chapter of this collection is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Lovecraft is an imaginative genius. He manages to build a fantastic anti-world, containing unconceivable, titanic horrors, which is capable to intrigue and disturb even 21st century readers.
On the other hand, almost all the stories have the same narrative structure. And it is difficult to keep feeling entertained when you can guess the ending of each story.
My involvement in the book kept fading, story after story, because of this fact, so that I - paradoxically - preferred those stories which departed from Lovecraft main topics (my favourite probably was The Music of Erich Zann).
Each chapter of this collection is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Lovecraft is an imaginative genius. He manages to build a fantastic anti-world, containing unconceivable, titanic horrors, which is capable to intrigue and disturb even 21st century readers.
On the other hand, almost all the stories have the same narrative structure. And it is difficult to keep feeling entertained when you can guess the ending of each story.
My involvement in the book kept fading, story after story, because of this fact, so that I - paradoxically - preferred those stories which departed from Lovecraft main topics (my favourite probably was The Music of Erich Zann).