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A review by swekster
The Hastur Cycle by Lin Carter, Robert W. Chambers, James Wade, Arthur Machen, Ramsey Campbell, James Blish, Richard A. Lupoff, Ambrose Bierce, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert M. Price
4.0
The overarching concept behind this collection is to show that there's more to Hastur than Lovecraft, maybe even to bring him to a "one of..." designation.
The goal (which was met and exceeded) was to give the history and the chronology of the development of, for lack of a better word, mythos, behind the concept. So while Lovecraft's The Whisperer in darkness is one of the best stories in the collection, it's just that, "one of..."
The ones that pop up, aside from the Whisperer, are The Repairer of Reputation and The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers, The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl Edward Wagner, The Novel of the Black Sea by Arthur Machen and The Feaster From Afar by Joseph Payne Brennan
The goal (which was met and exceeded) was to give the history and the chronology of the development of, for lack of a better word, mythos, behind the concept. So while Lovecraft's The Whisperer in darkness is one of the best stories in the collection, it's just that, "one of..."
The ones that pop up, aside from the Whisperer, are The Repairer of Reputation and The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers, The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl Edward Wagner, The Novel of the Black Sea by Arthur Machen and The Feaster From Afar by Joseph Payne Brennan