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Summary: Classic horror at it's best
Review: It's been said that Lovecraft is the only legitimate heir to Edgar Allen Poe in the field of American horror stories. Anyone who has read this collection of his best stories will have a hard time disputing this claim.I first read THE DUNWICH HORROR & OTHERS when I was 12 years old and, though I may not have had much contact with Lovecraft's writing since, I have carried these tales with me. His writing informed my entire outlook on writing and "Weird Tales". For years afterward I was obsessed with his stuff. It's great to finally go back and re-discover him after all this time. To my surprise, the stories are just as wonderful as ever. I feared that they would not age well, would seem hokey and dated. ...Guess that 12 year old was a pretty decent judge after all. Highest recommendation.
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Summary: Classic horror at it's best
Review: It's been said that Lovecraft is the only legitimate heir to Edgar Allen Poe in the field of American horror stories. Anyone who has read this collection of his best stories will have a hard time disputing this claim. I first read THE DUNWICH HORROR & OTHERS when I was 12 years old and, though I may not have had much contact with Lovecraft's writing since, I have carried these tales with me. His writing informed my entire outlook on writing and "Weird Tales". For years afterward I was obsessed with his stuff. It's great to finally go back and re-discover him after all this time. To my surprise, the stories are just as wonderful as ever. I feared that they would not age well, would seem hokey and dated. ...Guess that 12 year old was a pretty decent judge after all. Highest recommendation.
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Summary: One of Lovecraft's best volumes - hard to find!
Review: It's not fair to call Lovecraft a horror writer, as from his pen have come some of the most beautiful pieces of literature ever. Tales of the macabre, the ancient, the unspeakable. His narrative style draws you in immediately, engulfing you with the rich atmosphere of the Cthulhu Mythos. Some of Lovecraft's best works are collected in this volume - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kaddath, The Shunned House, as well as numerous short stories. Whether you're a nouveau fan or an old aquaintance, pick this book up
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Summary: Lovecraft finds terror lurking in nightmare shadows.
Review: Lovecraft's work does for the horror fiction tale what David Lynch's films do for cinema. It takes the genre into a stratum of the unconscious so abstract and frightening that one finds beauty in the macabre madness that exists there. "The Dunwich Horror and Others" is the ideal starting point for any Lovecraft neophyte. All of Lovecraft's most important and frightening short stories are found in their original forms in this beautiful Arkham House hardcover. There are a few omissions such as "The Lurking Fear" and "The Dreams in the Which House," but these stories and more are easy enough to locate in other Arkham House or Del Rey collections. To sit and read this volume cover to cover is to experience horror fiction at its most dismal and horrific. In "The Dunwich Horror," the reader visits the damned Whateley farm, where an extra-dimensional being has been summoned. In "The Colour Out of Space," a farm in Arkham, Ma. has been hit by a meteorite that carries with it a pestilence that drives the land and its inhabitants to madness and death. The maddeningly eerie "The Whisperer in Darkness" an isolated man describes his encounters with a malign alien colony that has taken residence near his home in backwater New England. "The Whisperer in Darkness" is one of Lovecraft's most potent tales due to the fact that it's narrative is largely drawn from letters, journal entries and even phonograph recordings of the extra-terrestrials themselves.
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Summary: Rantings of Nyarlathotep
Review: Lovecraft's writing inspires visions of undulating antediluvian spawn writhing in nauseous rhythms to the chaotic piping of things which should not be named. The "Shadow Out of Time" is more a tale of truth than of fiction...
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Summary: The best stories from the master of horror.
Review: Most of H.P.'s greatest stories are collected in this volume, from his best horror tales to some of the best Cthulhu myths stories. Required reading for any H.P. Lovecraft fan. I used to read this book in High School, usually around midnight and it scared me to death...
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Summary: The best of the best
Review: see title, this is the best of the bes
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Summary: A must for those interested in H.P. Lovecraft.
Review: The Dunwich Horror and Others is an excellent compulation of works. This will get the reader started on a road of horror interest. After reading this book I was prompted to buy the other two books that follow (#2 At the Mountains of Madness and #3 The Horror in the Museum All by Arkham House). I honestly believe that you will be well satisfied with these tree books. I woul recommend these books to anyone who loves to read and who loves horror. These stories are yor chop them up types. These are of a more psychological insideous horror genre.
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Summary: The Best Arkham House Collection
Review: This is the best Lovecraft edition for those who have been acquainted with Lovecraft and like his writings. Definately the best of the Arkham House collections and is the first of the Arkham House books to get. Probably not the best for those unfamiliar with Lovecraft just because of the cost. This collection includes my favorite Lovecraft story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", as well as the wonderful stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Dunwich Horror". Some of the other better stories include "The Music of Erich Zann" and "Pickman's Model". Robert Bloch's introduction is a nice supplement to Lovecraft's writings. Highly recommended, but I also recommend buying additional Lovecraft because this collection does leave out some Lovecraft gems(i.e. "At the Mountains of Madness").
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Summary: The Contents of This Book
Review: What with so many different Lovecraft collections out there, it may be helpful to prospective buyers to know what's actually in this one: [By S. T. Joshi:] A Note on the Texts; [by T.E.D. Klein:] A Dreamer's Tales [an introductory essay by perhaps the best living American author of supernatural horror fiction]; [fiction by Lovecraft:] The Tomb [short story]; Dagon [short story]; Polaris [short story]; Beyond the Wall of Sleep [short story]; The White Ship [short story]; The Doom That Came to Sarnath [short story]; The Tree [short story]; The Cats of Ulthar [short story]; The Temple [short story]; Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family [short story]; Celephaïs [short story]; From Beyond [short story]; The Nameless City [short story]; The Quest of Iranon [short story]; The Moon-Bog [short story]; The Other Gods [short story]; Herbert West-Reanimator [a collected magazine serial]; Hypnos [short story]; The Hound [short story]; The Lurking Fear [short story]; The Unnamable [short story]; The Festival [short story]; Under the Pyramids [short story ghostwritten for Harry Houdini]; The Horror at Red Hook [short story]; He [short story]; The Strange High House in the Mist [short story]; The Evil Clergyman [Lovecraft's recounting of one of his dreams, extracted from one of his letters]; In the Walls of Eryx [short story written in collaboration with Kenneth Sterling]; The Beast in the Cave [short story]; The Alchemist [short story]; The Transition of Juan Romero [short story]; The Street [prose poem]; Poetry and the Gods [short story ghostwritten for Anna Helen Crofts]; Azathoth [an uncompleted fiction draft]; The Descendant [an uncompleted fiction draft]; The Book [an uncompleted fiction draft]; Supernatural Horror in Literature [a monograph]; [by Joshi:] Index to Supernatural Horror in Literature; Chronology of the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Most of this volume features shorter and less well-known fiction by Lovecraft, including a little best-overlooked juvenalia, though it also has some of his much-anthologized hits, as with "Dagon" and "Herbert West- Reanimator". Many of these stories are early fantasies, influenced by Edgar Allan Poe at his most fantastical and the early Lord Dunsany, of very mixed quality, as is this collection overall. Still, there are some underrated gems among the less known stories: "The Tomb", for instance, is a subtly poignant depiction of despair, loneliness, and frustration. What's really called for in the reader is attentiveness to the emotional atmosphere woven by these texts: Try to go through each of them slowly, without interruption, in a single reading, without disruptive background noise. Read this way, even a bungled story like "The Temple" spins the kind of disturbing emotional effect Lovecraft sought to convey. This is the third volume in a series of four by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., presenting the nearly complete fiction of Lovecraft. (The others, in order, are: THE DUNWICH HORROR AND OTHERS; AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS AND OTHER NOVELS; and THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM AND OTHER REVISIONS.) Almost all the remaining prose fiction can found in a later Arkham House title, MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, also by Lovecraft. All five books are visually attractive, textually researched (though I quarrel with some of Joshi's textual editing decisions), and belong on the bookshelf of every serious Lovecraft reader.
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