Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft

There's a length introduction to this excellent 3.95 collection of his shorter work.

Best of H P Lovecraft : The Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Picture in the House - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Outsider - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : Pickman’s Model - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : In the Vault - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Silver Key - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Music of Erich Zann - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Dunwich Horror - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Whisperer in Darkness - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Colour Out of Space - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Haunter of the Dark - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Thing on the Doorstep - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Dreams in the Witch-House - H. P. Lovecraft
Best of H P Lovecraft : The Shadow Out of Time - H. P. Lovecraft

Cat not up to Roman god stuff and rodents.

4 out of 5

Very odd stuff in that book, and very odd dialect.

2.5 out of 5

Bookworm discovers scary stuff.

3.5 out of 5

Creepy paintings have too real subjects.

4 out of 5

Tomb rearrangement injuries.

3.5 out of 5

After opening the iron box and finding what was in it, no one can find Randolph Carter anymore.

4 out of 5

Really bad playing.

3 out of 5

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

4.5 out of 5

Yog-Sothoth worshipper's precocious son a chip off the old block find the blokes from Arkham.

4.5 out of 5

Trust your dogs to tell you if monsters like the Outer Ones from Outer Space are bad, not the rambling letters of spook old friends.

4 out of 5

Meteor's spectrum perversion brings madness and grey death.

5 out of 5

Painter type investigates a temple of the Starry Wisdom sect, and some scary looking notes, ends up leaving some of those himself.

3.5 out of 5

"It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman--madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium."

Pretty much sums it up, really.

4.5 out of 5

Small town's Esoteric Order of Dagon proves more than a little fishy.

4 out of 5

Talented broke mathematics students should choose other places to study than in a house in Arkham with space-time continuum conduits, witches, and vampire rats.

4.5 out of 5

Western Australian evidence of Great Race timespanning colonisation and communication.

4.5 out of 5




4.5 out of 5

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