![]() ![]() ![]() Howard Lovecraft said, “All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. As an atheist, Lovecraft wanted to write horror that didn’t depend on religio-mythical fodder, so his monsters were creatures from beyond space and time, hideous things older than mankind that travelled across the vast tracts of space to cause us horror. Sometimes that makes the story boring, but often with Lovecraft’s work you know what’s going to happen but you want to read it anyway. Some of the stories are extremely predicatable and obvious. Stephen King describes Lovecraft in a quote on the cover of this book as, “The twentieth century horror story’s dark and baroque prince”. #Call of cthulhu summary plus#This particular collection has many of the classics, including the title story, The Call Of Cthulhu, the aforementioned The Shadow Over Innsmouth, plus other well known stories such as Herbet West – Reanimator, Dagon, Nyarlathotep and The Colour Out Of Space (which turned out to be my favourite yarn in this book). The vast majority of his stuff was published in Weird Tales and other similar pulp magazines. It also includes the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which was the only actual book of Lovecraft’s fiction to be published in his lifetime (by William L Crawford’s Visionary Press). This is an excellent collection, including eighteen stories from quick two or three page vignettes to extensive multi-chapter stories and novella. The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories, and the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft This edition was first published in 1999. I recently decided to reread some of his stuff and picked up the new edition of The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories, edited by S T Joshi. Ever since those days the intergalactic horror fiction of Lovecraft has had a special place in my heart. Me and friends even played some Call Of Cthulhu role playing game, investigating weird phenomena while trying to hold onto our sanity points. I first read some of H P Lovecraft’s short stories back in my mid teens. ![]()
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