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Better than average selection of lovecraftian takes set in the 1920s. While all three are well written, my personal preference is the Orrin Grey "The Lesser Keys". Innsmouth Press has a reputation of generally high quality publications and Jazz Age Cthulhu continues that tradition.
3.5It's an interesting collection of novelettes. "The Lesser Keys" is my personal favorite, though there's much to enjoy in the labyrinthine "Pomptinia Sum." "Dreams of a Thousand Young" is probably the weakest of the three, falling back on some of Lovecraft's more unfortunate tropes (evil women, evil exoticism, etc), but it was still enjoyable.
A collection of three novelettes set in the Cthulhu Mythos, the stories in Jazz Age Cthulhu are competent and enjoyable excursions into the Mythos, with most of the actually mythology being small elaborations rather than anything groundshaking - readers won't find any of the fanfiction staples of new gods and the accompanying strange lines on the sprawling, non-Euclidian family trees. What they will find is a focus more on the atmosphere of the age; while most Mythos tales are set in the 1920s,
**I'm not sure if I have spoilers here, but be warned anyway...and it's a wordy review this time. I'm chatty tonight. ** After working slowly through many, if not most of the publications from Innsmouh Free Press (I need to double-check), I feel comfortable suggesting it as a consistently reliable "starting place" for folks looking for direction once they've read all of HPL's works and have, perhaps, covered his influences--Blackwood, Dunsany, Machen, etc. This short work and the collection enti...
Some solidly good Cthulhu stories. My favorite? The music one--but really, I enjoyed them all. And remember--don't read books that might make you crazy.
Wonderfully creepy tales set in an era that seems not so far away.
There are two good Lovecraftian short stories in this, and one great short story that defies categorization.
OH! What I`ve just been reading?!The last story of this short Anthology looks like the writer was on mooshrooms ( in the good way, but really, the atmosphere has something eerie, dreamlike to it) when has been writing it because it has a surreal feeling to it and a lot of bizzare things going on. And if you expected some definitive answers in the end, rest assured, you don`t get any. "Pomptinia Sum" by A. D. Cahill it`s not so easy to follow, it has an intricate building, but rewarding in some o...
A decent collection of Lovecraftian fiction all set in the 1920s but across various countries.
A good beginner introduction to the Lovecraft style, told with a little more modern flare than the original stories and so might appeal to first time modern inductees. The stories in this collection are of distinctly different style from one another, so if the first tale "Dreams of a Thousand Young" doesn't do it for you, there might be something of interest lurking in "The Lesser Keys" or "Pomptinia Sum" (my personal fave.) If I could give stars to the individual stories, Lesser Keys and Pompti...
