The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P.
Lovecraft, 420 pages
I started reading this book namely because I saw one of my
coworkers reading it and was fascinated by the depiction on the cover. It is
not often you see Cthulhu wearing a mustache and monocle. I have never read anything by Lovecraft though
I know who Cthulhu is, so it was with a very open mind that I started reading.
Of the eighteen stories, my least favorite was Herbert West – Reanimator and my
favorites are The Hound, The Call of
Cthulhu, and The Colour out of Space. I think my dislike for Reanimator stems from seeing the semi
cheesy movie already and knowing what to expect. Or maybe with the movie
storyline being the first I saw of it, the book made it feel more alien or something.
Most of the rest were quite good and left you with a small
sense of undefinable dread. Not enough in my case to make me stop reading or to
keep me up at night, but a vague feeling or thought the creeps into the mind under
the right conditions.
I was aware of the movie "Reanimator" but didn't realize it was a Lovecraft story. I read the story first and preferred it, due to the fact that the movie was ultra cheesy and exaggerated. But still a good cult flick.
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