The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch
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Author: H.P. Lovecraft, Robert BlochEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1987-05-12
ISBN: 0345350804
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: Mostly Good, Though Sometimes Leaving Want
Summary: 4 Stars
These stories aren't so much horror as they are disturbing. You're not going to be shaking in terror, but rather more along the lines of saying "ugh".
Some might be turned off by Lovecraft's long winded way of storytelling and even with me, it took time to read the stories because I just couldn't get into them.
One review I read told of Lovecraft took too much describing the mundane while, when it came to horror, copped out. There is some truth, but it isn't as bad as one may think.
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Summary of The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including Lovecraft's masterpiece, THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME--the shocking revelation of the mysterious forces that hold all mankind in their fearsome grip."I think it is beyond doubt that H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."
Stephen King
Lovecraft is "the American writer of the twentieth century most frequently compared with Poe, in the quality of his art ... [and] its thematic preoccupations (the obsessive depiction of psychic disintegration in the face of cosmic horror)," writes Joyce Carol Oates in the New York Review of Books. Del Rey has reprinted Lovecraft's stories in three handsome paperbacks. This first volume collects 16 classic tales, including "The Rats in the Walls," "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror," and "The Colour Out of Space." Introduction by Robert Bloch. Wraparound cover art by Michael Whelan.
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