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It was great fun to be back in Lovecraft's world again. These 7 stories were outlines that Lovecraft left behind, and August Derleth fleshed them out. They basically had the feel of 'reminders' of the actions that took place in his earlier works. The Survivor, the Peabody Heritage (the best of the lot), and the Gable Window all had the standard plot of a man who moves into the home of a deceased wizard and slowly discovers the house's secrets. Wentworth's Day reminds me of the 3rd story in Creep...
The difference between Lovecraft and Derleth is definitely noticeable here. Was it just me, or were some of the plotlines almost identical (to each other and to other Lovecraft works)? Derleth also laid some things on with a really heavy hand...this might have been fan service, I guess. However, the pointed references to the mythos could not have been less subtle if he bolded, capitalized, and underlined each instance of "the Mountains of Madness".
Відгук на однойменне оповідання.Антиквара Елайджу Етвуда зацікавив у місті Провіденс, штат Род-Айленд, будинок, зведений в 1697 році. Раніше там жив доктор Жан-Франсуа Шарьєр, який помер в 1927 році. Етвуд вирішує орендувати будинок і, попри те, що орендар і юристи, які опікуються будинком, спершу відмовляють його від цього, йому все ж вдається їх переконати.Така їхня неохочість змушує Етвуда дізнатися більше про колишнього власника. Про нього майже нічого не відомо, проте на могилі написали рік...
The Survivor was a great tale (I feel represented since my nick is Alley'Gator), but apart from that, mixes other mad scientist story with Lovecraft's insane and dark world. You can guess what turns out.The other stories are very repetitive (unless you read theese first), and I agree with a previous reviewer, to be stretching Lovecraft's bubble gum, but we all will continue to look for more content from this genius even if it is a co-production based on a napkin.Consume with care.
Meh. This was a Derleth book. A lot of this stuff was super derivative of Lovecraft's stuff. The Survivor was OK, Wentworth's day was pretty good, The Peabody Heritage was extremely derivative, The Gable Window was pretty good but also highly derivative of the previous collaboration The Lurker at the Threshold. The Shadow out of Space was a worse version of The Color out of Space + The Shadow out of Time (this is obvious by the title). However, those stories were both really awesome, and this st...
(I've had this book for a while, but somehow I didn't remember to add it until now)The stories aren't great (not nearly as bad as some people say, though; they're entertaining enough if you're in the mood for old pulp horror), but that cover has to be one of the greatest of all time.
A last collection of stories from Lovecraft. OK if you like horror, but I've never much liked Lovecraft's writing. Perhaps it's the lack of quality of the writing; he knows how to set a good mood, but I usually find that the storytelling lacks depth. Lovecraft wrote a LOT of books, and I think that may be a key factor. He had to write fast to maintain that kind of output, and Stephen King he ain't. This is an interesting collection IF you're a Lovecraft fan.
The stories are fun to read as long as you don't compare them with other stories by Lovecraft (the ones in this book were unfinished and completed after Lovecraft's death by August Derleth), but one inevitably does compare. I mean, they are well written, but there's not much of a surprise in them. The Lovecraftian mythology is employed, but for some reason it didn't invoke the supernatural horror in me. I liked "The Ancestor", because it was something quite unexpected (also, if you're not bother...
According to the introduction, these stories are written (I infer nearly completely) by August Derleth based on notes left by Lovecraft; they are written very clearly not by Lovecraft but by someone who knows a lot about Lovecraft’s oeuvre and wants to show it. Derleth does his best to drop in references to other Lovecraft stories throughout the stories; it gets a bit overbearing at times, and partly because he drops in so many references that there isn’t much in the way of suspense. We know wha...
More like 3.5, it was okay
Tis is a collection of stories that Lovecraft had not completed as of when he died, and that were completed by August Derleth afterwards. An excellent collection - Derleth did a great job of completing them.
First of all. H.P. Love craft and his mythos are wonderful. All the bits of reoccurring lore that are beautifully woven into his stories continue to interest me with their continued depth. August Dereleth did a wonderful job finishing these stories. I could not decipher where his words began and Love crafts notes ended. Every story in this book was well written and interesting, I never had trouble engaging in any one of them. My only complaint is that most of them followed very similar arks with...
Alright for a quick read. All the stories were kind of the same.
I've only read The Survivor, but I couldn't find the simple tale. Quite interesting tale to show us some of the story behind the frog people, quite more explicit than the normal Lovecraft stories, but he was dead so didnt have too much to protest about it xD
These tales, based on notes left after Lovecraft's death and written by August Derleth, are still original and frightening all these years later. Last night I read The Shadow Out of Space before going to bed...and I had dreams that the Ancient Ones were coming for me. This morning I awoke to the realization that I need to make a button that says: "Can't sleep, Cthulhu will eat me."
