I didn’t find it particularly interesting and it is also the first case of one of the least pleasant elements of Lovecraft’s writing a pervasive racism throughout.
It’s central conceit, relating a radio conversation between a man descending into an eldritch tomb and the protagonist outside, is very effective, although the ending is a bit goofy.įacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family was one of my least favourite stories in the collection. Next is The Statement of Randolph Carter, another relatively straightforward horror story that is actually rather fun. It’s fairly simple by Lovecraft’s standards, but it’s a great way to open the collection functioning as it does almost as a microcosm of Lovecraft’s setting. It’s a relatively straightforward tale about a man who encounters the eponymous Dagon and is driven mad. The first tale is Dagon, an early tale of Lovecraft’s which serves as a forebear to the so called ‘Cthulhu mythos’ featuring vast, unknowable beings utterly beyond human understanding. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is a Penguin collection of 18 of Lovecraft’s best known tales. The brand of horror created by Lovecraft, for whatever reason, unsettles me and gets under my skin hugely effectively. Lovecraft, perhaps chief among them being the stellar PS4 game Bloodborne, but I’d never got round to seeing where it all started. There’s significant amount of stuff that I love that was inspired by the works of H.P. James, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as the anthology "American Supernatural Tales" (2007).The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft He has also prepared Penguin Classics editions of the work of Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M. Lovecraft: A Life" (1996) was later expanded as "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. He is also the author of "The Weird Tale" (1990), "The Modern Weird Tale" (2001), and "Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction" (2012). He has prepared comprehensive editions of Lovecraft s collected fiction, essays, and poetry. His relatively small corpus of fiction three short novels and about sixty short stories has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine "Weird Tales," to which he contributed most of his fiction. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life.
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