the call of cthulhu and other weird tales

With the most awesomest, bad-assed creature ever. The Call of Cthulhu: What can I say? THE ultimate Lovecraft story of all time. Creepy and terrifying set up with an awesome/gross payoff. You feel as unsettled as the narrator as things progress.Ĭool Air: One of my favorite Lovecraft stories. The Festival: Had read this before, but reread it and it was still awesome. Tough to read in this day and age cause of the cat's name. The Rats in the Walls: Excellent! Very creepy, even though you can figure out what's coming. Not his best, but not one of his clunkers either. But upon re-reading it, I do find it quite enjoyable. I put in another HP review that I didn't care for The Hound. Herbert West - Reanimator: Awesome, even if reading the series together tends to get repetitive. Very good, even if predictable at the end. The Outsider: Thought I had read this before and I was correct. Like all of his best, it builds and builds until you're totally freaked out at the end. Uh, did anything even happen in this story?

I'm wondering if the galley in the story is the same from 'The White Ship'. His 'dream'-type stories aren't the best. I expected the ending to incorporate the Dagon/Cthulhu mythos (it didn't) but I was still pleasantly surprised.Ĭelephais: Okay. HP can create more terror in 7 pages than most people in 700 pages.įacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family: Very good.

The Statement of Randolph Carter: Also excellent. The Sci-Fi Channel movie 'Dagon' was NOT based on this story. Read moreĭagon: Excellent, but way too short. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as 'The Outsider' to the overpowering cosmic terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu.' More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louieįrequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe.

The call of cthulhu and other weird tales