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The Festival
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What the man witnesses at his family's house does little to comfort him. Soon he is drawn into a world unlike any he has known, and its sights will haunt him for the rest of his life . . .
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“I cannot believe Olaus Wormius was a real guy’s name.
An atmospheric, if slightly ambling, seasonal tale. This is a fun weird story with lots of great visuals that showcases Lovecraft’s fascination with inheritance and ancestry being inextricably linked to ritual and horrific revelation, though it still feels like another thematic prototype that won’t be fully realised until The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The descriptions of Kingsport are detailed (my boy is obsessed with gambrel roofs), the snowy setting lends a unique flavour, and the descriptions of the ritual and its terrifying participants are pleasantly surreal. I liked this more than I expected by the end. The waxen mask, green fires, and flying Byakhee make for potent imagery. We also see the Necronomicon first-hand and get some references to Arkham, which is fun. Another classic Lovecraft ending.
3.5 Festivus for the Rest of Us’s out of 5”
About H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was born in New England, a landscape that he turned into a stage of fiction. His stories inherited the tradition of gothic horror tales from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, but Lovecraft set his own standards. His first stories appeared in
, a pulp magazine. “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926), a short story about a monstrous deity that inhabits the Earth, is the base of the myths related to the Cthulhu Mythos, a genre of horror fiction launched by Lovecraft. In its world, populated by beings of other dimensions, the laws of humanity are worthless. But man is incapable of understanding its insignificance in the face of the magnitude of the cosmos.
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