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Synopsis "For anyone interested even faintly in good horror writing, what we have here is pure gold: Lovecraft's own selection of the best the genre has to offer, along with his comments on the individual stories. Talk about the horse's mouth! This book is long overdue."-Peter Straub "Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me -- Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Ray Bradbury among them. The reader would do well to remember that it is his shadow, so long and gaunt, and his eyes, so dark and puritanical, which overlie almost all of the important horror fiction that has come since."-Stephen King "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."-H.P. Lovecraft… (meer)
A nice collection of 19th and early 20th century horror shorts. The works are all introduced by selections from Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature, a book to which this makes a nice companion. Since the stories are older, some of them seem hackenyed and dull by modern standards, while others still retain a certain creepiness. Recommended for anyone interested in Lovecraft and his inspirations or the weird/horror tradition in general. ( )
Synopsis "For anyone interested even faintly in good horror writing, what we have here is pure gold: Lovecraft's own selection of the best the genre has to offer, along with his comments on the individual stories. Talk about the horse's mouth! This book is long overdue."-Peter Straub "Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me -- Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Ray Bradbury among them. The reader would do well to remember that it is his shadow, so long and gaunt, and his eyes, so dark and puritanical, which overlie almost all of the important horror fiction that has come since."-Stephen King "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."-H.P. Lovecraft
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