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The Watchers Out of Time
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Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion–and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including
• Wentworth’s Day A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be.
• The Shuttered Room A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather’s estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets.
• The Dark Brotherhood A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created.
• Innsmouth Clay A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world–and not at all under his control.
• Witches’ Hollow A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature.
• Wentworth’s Day A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be.
• The Shuttered Room A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather’s estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets.
• The Dark Brotherhood A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created.
• Innsmouth Clay A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world–and not at all under his control.
• Witches’ Hollow A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature.
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Cherice Wright
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“I hate to say it, but extremely underwhelming.
For those who are not aware, after Lovecraft's death August Derleth, who was a friend of Lovecraft's, obtained much of the writer's unfinished works and made it a mission to get them out there. Commendable, to a point.
In this book, although titled as stories by Lovecraft, these are mostly (if not all) written by Derleth, stories expanded using Lovecraft's mythos and settings. The problem is that Derleth just did not have the same effect that Lovecraft had.
Almost all these stories run the same (someone inherits a house/estate, discovers strange goings on in the area, and confronts some eldritch power). The only difference is the different sprinkling of Lovecraft's mythos (one is in Dunwich, one is in Innsmouth, etc).
While trying to capitalize as an homage, it instead feels like a retread of better things that came before. Like an unnecessary movie sequel, I'd recommend to just read the original work of Lovecraft himself.
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“Underwhelmed. That's how I'd describe my experience with this book. Maybe it wasn't the best Lovecraft to start with, but it was the one that I found in a used bookstore. And it wasn't until I started reading that I discovered it was a collaboration(?) with August Derleth. Or maybe it was just a posthumous collection of unpublished work by Lovecraft alongside some fan fiction (if that's the right way to think of it) by Derleth?
Overall, the stories seemed to be kind of dull. There's a fair bit of vague, suggestive menace from the Elder Gods who really only show up as references in notes or books left behind in creepy libraries and attics. Calling this "cosmic horror" seems overblown to me, but maybe that's just my de-sensitized 21st century brain looking back on quaint mid-20th century writing that truly was horrifying at the time. It could be that, but I doubt it.
And what's with the repetitive set up of someone being bequeathed property by some great/grandfather, great/grand-uncle in Dunwich? I sense that there must be some family lines (like the Whatley's) that must feature in other Lovecraft fiction, but that set up got a little tiresome.
Those of you who enjoy Lovecraft: should I try something different from his oeuvre or am I likely to be just as frustrated with those as well?”
Lea4Now
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“Some of these stories were downright unsettling, and, shall we use the word most often associated with Lovecraft (and one used by himself often enough) eldritch... I haven't read Lovecraft before, but I love a lot of authors influenced by him, so I looked in the local bookstore and found only these short stories. I don't know if they are as good as or worse than his full length books, but these stories were... interesting and most definitely CREEPY.”
About H. P. Lovecraft
Almost completely ignored by the mainstream press during his lifetime, H. P. Lovecraft has since come to be recognized as one of the greatest writers of classic horror, on a par with Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft's mentor. H. P. Lovecraft's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, his tales adapted for film, television, and comic books, and he has been the subject of more scholarly study than any other writer of horror fiction save Poe.
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