The chilling conclusion of the Cthulhu Mythos comes in the ultimate Lovecraft fanfiction, written by the great Robert Bloch. What if Lovecraft wrote his stories about the Great Old Ones not as fiction, but as a warning? Bloch answers this question in the best way possible and did something, which no other Cthulhu author dared - not Derleth, nor Masterton - he took the story to the end, which Lovecraft himself would have written.A great read! You can read more detailed review in Bulgarian here:ht...

-Honores y desorden, con la mejor de las intenciones.- Género. Narrativa fantástica.Lo que nos cuenta. El habitante más conocido de R´lyeh va a salir de su sueño muy pronto, y la compra de un inquietante cuadro desencadena una serie inesperada de acontecimientos…¿Quiere saber más del libro, sin spoilers? Visite:http://librosdeolethros.blogspot.com/...

This book is, in my opinion, the BEST Lovecraft/Mythos paniche out there! written with love and admiration for Lovecraft and his concepts. A terrific terror novel, and well worth finding on your own!

I don't often make it a habit to read Lovecraft pastiches, seeing as how (with some exceptions to the rule) the end results are often on the dire side: however, this book is often namechecked by the occultist Kenneth Grant in the latter volumes of his Typhonian Trilogies, so naturally I was somewhat curious about its contents (it was also highly praised by S.T. Joshi in his book The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos, though he was also quick to point out that as good as it was, it was still no...

Si con El que acecha en el umbral encontré una novela introductoria altamente recomendable para enterarse de la mitología Lovecraftniana sin verse abrumado por escenarios o historias más grandilocuentes de tinte apocalíptico pero conservando la esencia y sirviendo de abrebocas para la obra del autor de Providence. Con el El horror que nos acecha encontré una novela que amerita conocerse en el orden opuesto. Estamos ante una historia alejada del drama familiar ("micro") vista en la obra de Derlet...

4-4,5 stars.The only reason I do not give this novella 5 stars is that for it to be really efficient as a story I think it should either have been cut in places or, preferably, have been expanded with at least a hundred pages more--in order to create the desired emotional build-up all the elements in the story would require.All this is no critique of Bloch, mind you. Bloch delivers exactly what I expected from this story, and he delivers exactly what he sets out to deliver. Which is a nice, fast...

time again for LOVE ♥ CRAFT ♥ CONNECTION... THE ♥ GAY ♥ EDITION!this roman à clef features hunky bachelor CTHULHU and charming man-about-town NYARLOTHOTEP. Cthulhu Nicknames: The Many-Tentacled One, The Dweller in the DeepLikes: dreaming, sending dreams to minions, the watery depths, water sports in generalDislikes: locked gates, being stuck at the bottom of the oceanFavorite Craft: although he enjoys the comforts of home and armchair traveling via the minds of his minions, Mr. Cthulhu als...

I love the cold, cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft gave to the world. I love the darkly grinning and malevolently winking nightmares of Robert Bloch. Combine the two and you get one hell of a book any fan of the Cthulhu Mythos, Mr. Bloch, and especially those who love both, should read at once. This right here is the good stuff.

Strange Eons marks the late Robert Bloch's return to the Cthulhu mythos. The first episode (of three) starts with art collector Albert Keith buying a painting with a vivid depiction of a ghoul. His friend Simon Waverly discovers an anstounding similarity to the paintings of a fictional artist, Robert Upton Pickman, from a short story called "Pickman's Model" by a certain writer named H. P. Lovecraft.The both of them soon find out that Lovecraft's stories were in fact based in reality and become

Un homenaje de Bloch a la obra de Lovecraft. Y no se trata de hacer referencias, el autor toma tal cual los elementos de, personajes y bestiario y arma una historia "actualizada" de los mitos de Cthulhu. La lectura es agil, entretiene, no está cargada como los cuentos de Lovecratf. Sin embargo, en el cuento, Bloch cae, como su maestro, en la discriminación racial. Y es que uno pensaría que con tantos años de distancia entre uno y otro, Bloch no repetiría el mismo error de Lovecraft, sobretodo po...

What's the best way to write a Lovecraftian book? Be a member of the Lovecraft Circle.Robert Bloch, having sold his first story at 18, is a near-endless source of wonder and envy for me. Having known H.P. Lovecraft, he's one of the few perfect choices to play in Howie's sandbox. I've wanted to see how it turned out for years, but until a dear friend and talented podcaster sent me a copy, I couldn't get my hands on one.Now that I have it, I can legitimately say this is wonderfully different than

Robert Bloch's best book after Psycho and one of the best novels based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

L'incipit è buono, fa rivivere le atmofere un po' polverose ma sempre affascinanti dei vecchi romanzi dell'orrore di inizio Novecento. Poi la trama diventa più concreta, attuale e ingarbugliata, tra complotti, servizi segreti e sette sataniche fino all'inevitabile spiegone finale.Un'omaggio a Lovecraft riuscito a metà a causa di una storia che non cattura abbastanza e di personaggi poco caratterizzati.Mi aspettavo meglio.

This book disappointed a bit because some of Bloch’s mythos stories, like “The Shadow from the Steeple” and “Notebook Found in a Deserted House” are excellent. This story, though, reads as a bland homage to Lovecraft where Bloch tries to cram in as many aspects of the mythos as possible. There isn’t much horror to it, just knowing glances as Lovecraft’s best-known stories are referenced.

Un tributo a HP Lovercraft por parte del escritor de Psicosis, que a través de sus tres historias nos responde a la pregunta ¿Qué pasarían si los cuentos/novelas de Lovecraft fuesen reales?Algo que destaca en el libro desde el principio son las referencias a las obras del escritor de Providence a los largo de la novela, ya sea a través de menciones del propio autor o los personajes, esto mas que ser simple fanservice es una manera en que Bloch no introduce las historias de Lovercarft a un contex...

This review was first published on Kurt's Frontier.Synopsis:“That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.” (The Call of Cthulhu 1928)“It is said that what men know is called science; what they have not yet learned they call magic. But both are real…” What if Howard P. Lovecraft was not just an author. What if he were using fiction to deliver a veiled warning. Suppose that the creatures of his legendarium had horrific counterparts in reality.Three people are

I read Strange Eons back when I was 12 years old and was excited to revisit it. Bloch definitely lives up to his position as a member of the Lovecraft Circle with this tale. His capability to weave different elements of the Lovecraft mythos into the evolving plot without shoe-horning them in makes for an organic story that ages incredibly well. Highly recommend it.

Great, heartfelt love letter to the Cthulhu Mythos fiction of HP Lovecraft. The storyline assumes that Lovecraft wasn't writing fiction at all; he was trying to warn people. The book consists of three novellas, all of which allude to various stories from Lovecraft. Great stuff.

Meh. It sounds dumb to complain that a book based on the premise that Lovecraft is true feels derivative (because of COURSE it's derivative) but... God this felt derivative. I just... I expected a book with that premise to be interesting and this just... wasn't, and while of COURSE a book like this would have to reference Lovecraft, it did it too much. There was a lot of "Oh the thing that just happened was EXACTLY LIKE IN THAT ONE BIT IN THE DUNWICH HORROR" and yeah, okay, maybe you could use L...

Para mí ha sido una lectura bastante decepcionante, el primer tercio me gustó, el segundo me aburrí y el tercero me pareció predecible y ya seguí por no dejarlo sin acabar. Debo decir que si me limitara a valorar el texto original de Bloch posiblemente serían 3 estrellas pero es que la edición en español es lamentable. En primer lugar el traductor ignora completamente las traducciones previas de la obra de Lovecraft, con cosas como llamar a los "Great Old Ones" los "Grandes Diablos", lo que ya c...