A review by yodisborg
Great Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

3.0

An inconsistent collection filled with some truly great and different stories, Call of Cthulhu, Colournout of Space. Unfortunately some of the stories reaching for the occult and arcana read more like tropes. To be fair, Lovecraft was responsible for creatinine many of those tropes but reading a collection of stories you see too often some of his tools: a horror that cannot be described, the narrator fear that writing this truth will expose too much but keeping secret will be worse, a revelation in the last paragraph. Nonetheless, the mythos building by itself make Lovecraft worth reading and his tools while overused are effective in creating dread and fear in the reader.