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octavia_cade's review against another edition
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3.0
Now that I've finished this, it's safe to say that I'm done with reading Lovecraft for a while. No doubt in a year or two I'll try him again, but a little of him goes a long way as far as I'm concerned. On the whole, I preferred the stories collected here to those collected in the first volume, but some of them were still not great. The best of them is "Pickman's Model," which I've read many times before and liked, but on the whole... the things that appear to scare Lovecraft do not raise a whole lot of chills for me. The more cosmic horror he trends, the less I care.
Of this particular edition: most of the footnotes were helpful and illuminating, and I enjoyed the short opening essay. As with the previous volume in the series, though, there is inexplicably no table of contents.
Otherwise, I read and reviewed the stories included here separately so don't feel much need to go over them again. No penguins this time, unfortunately, but there were bats instead, and it's not like the penguins were made as much of as I would have liked anyway. Which I suppose can also be said for the bats...
Of this particular edition: most of the footnotes were helpful and illuminating, and I enjoyed the short opening essay. As with the previous volume in the series, though, there is inexplicably no table of contents.
Otherwise, I read and reviewed the stories included here separately so don't feel much need to go over them again. No penguins this time, unfortunately, but there were bats instead, and it's not like the penguins were made as much of as I would have liked anyway. Which I suppose can also be said for the bats...
carlosernesto's review
5.0
Though I wouldn't recommend it as an intro to HPL (due to the inclusion of lesser stories, such as "The Shunned House" and "The Horror at Red Hook"), as a longtime Lovecraft fan I found it to be a real treat. Joshua and Cannon's notes help bring out the use of historical and literary allusions as well as the intertextuality of Lovecraft's tales. Includes such gems as "The Picture in the House," "Pickman's Model," and "The Call of Cthulhu."
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