Lovecraft also has an Edgar Allan Poe mode of haunted mansions and ghosts and crypts. Lovecraft’s fantasy is decent in comparison, but overly wordy. But, I’m sorry to say, Dunsany remains the master when it comes to the melancholy beauty of fantasy and dreams. Some stories, like Celephais, seem to be lifted right out of a Lord Dunsany collection. The Colour Out of Space is a great story of sustained weirdness and feels like the great inspiration behind Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach (2014) trilogy. The Whisperer in Darkness deepens it further. It lays down the whole background of the Mythos about gods from outer space. The Call of Cthulhu is a classic story by now and an excellent piece of world-building. The last 5 stories are half of the total page count. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family ***.They go from old and short to newer and longer. The book has some 20 stories and I’m delighted to go through them with you. I bought the Penguin collection of short stories named The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Shit. So, I am very excited to crack open this book here. I know there are whole tribes out there with an obsessive love for this man’s work, but I have never read a thing. I am totally new to this whole HP Lovecraft experience.
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