Strange Eons

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Summary: For Lovecraft Fans Only
Review: I couldn't resist the opportunity to be the first to review a book, albiet an obscure one. Everyone knows of Psycho from the superb Hitchcock film, but few know that it was originally a book, and even fewer know that the author was a member of the "Lovecraft Circle." (Most of these people don't even know who H.P.Lovecraft is). Here, written 20 years after Robert Bloch's phenomenal hit Psycho is Strage Eons, the ultimate homage to the works of Howard Phillip Lovecraft! And here over 20 years after this book was written is the first commentary on it for Amazon.com! First of all, only fans of Lovecraft's works will really understand this book. Throughout the book are parallels to Lovecraft's original stories and even though these parallels are explained to the main characters who, like most of the public, are unfamiliar with Lovecraft's writings only a reader of Lovecraft will find the fun in them. This story, I think, is really meant to be more for fun than for genuinely disturbing the reader, which Lovecraft's writing tried and succeeded at. Bloch's writing style can't touch Lovecraft's and his characters are flat and dimensionless but overall its a fun read and I recommend it to fans of The Great Old One. Its a little unfortunate that the genius behind Psycho couldn't make a great book to pay homage to the Master, but its still worth a look.

Rating:
Summary: For Lovecraft Fans Only
Review: I couldn't resist the opportunity to be the first to review a book, albiet an obscure one. Everyone knows of Psycho from the superb Hitchcock film, but few know that it was originally a book, and even fewer know that the author was a member of the "Lovecraft Circle." (Most of these people don't even know who H.P.Lovecraft is). Here, written 20 years after Robert Bloch's phenomenal hit Psycho is Strage Eons, the ultimate homage to the works of Howard Phillip Lovecraft! And here over 20 years after this book was written is the first commentary on it for Amazon.com! First of all, only fans of Lovecraft's works will really understand this book. Throughout the book are parallels to Lovecraft's original stories and even though these parallels are explained to the main characters who, like most of the public, are unfamiliar with Lovecraft's writings only a reader of Lovecraft will find the fun in them. This story, I think, is really meant to be more for fun than for genuinely disturbing the reader, which Lovecraft's writing tried and succeeded at. Bloch's writing style can't touch Lovecraft's and his characters are flat and dimensionless but overall its a fun read and I recommend it to fans of The Great Old One. Its a little unfortunate that the genius behind Psycho couldn't make a great book to pay homage to the Master, but its still worth a look.

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Summary: Lovecraft homage by his friend Bloch
Review: If you do not know a lot about H.P. Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos", you probably aren't going to understand a lot of what is going on in Robert Bloch's "Strange Eons". The book mostly concerns the end of time when worshipers of the Great Old Ones are trying to raise up the old gods. There are many parallels to many of Lovecrat's stories, so if you do not know the original stories pretty well, you'll be a little lost. It dose not have the trapped in a nightmare feel that Lovecraft managed to generate, but it is still pretty creepy all on it's own. This is not really a book as it is three interwoven long stories. While the absense of unity is kind of jarring, it is made up for by theorizing about the nature of Lovecraft's pantheon. The characters come up lacking quiet a bit, and the second story reads like an episode of "X-Files". But all in all, fans of the Cthulhu mythos should get a kick out of the novel. It should be noted that Bloch got his start by writing horror stories for pulp magazines, and he was a regular correspondant of Lovecraft.

Rating:
Summary: Beware the Old One!
Review: Strange Eons is a trio of tales that chart the awakening of Cthulthu, the slumbering, dreaming Elder God of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos. Fans of the C.M. will want to snag this and gobble it up. Recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Beware the Old One!
Review: Strange Eons is a trio of tales that chart the awakening of Cthulthu, the slumbering, dreaming Elder God of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos. Fans of the C.M. will want to snag this and gobble it up. Recommended.