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A review by gabesteller
Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird by H.P. Lovecraft
4.0
My Other Seasonal read is trashy fiction from 150 years ago! hooray for trash!
Was very curious to read cuz i love lovecraft, and unanny, unsettling stuff so much, plus I never got to read any old gothic or whatever stuff in college.
Lotta stuff I loved The willows (about a creepy island in a river (like Nicolet island???) that has a mind of its own, or the kinda OG folk/fairy horror in the White People, and any thing by Ambrose Bierce. although when the stories didn't hit it was kinda a big bummer cuz some o this shit can be real dense.
But something that was kinda disturbing while read is that these stories of immense, undefinable horror, were written by so many fucked up dudes. Like of course we go huge xenophobes, but also fascists, and real deal sex criminals!! Made me queasy reading (and enjoying) some of those stories but in a sort of f’d up way it was almost thematically fitting that stories about unfathomable evil, were written by actually pretty evil dudes.
( I should say this was just a significant minority of the authors as far as i could tell, and not my beloved Ambrose Bierce who was also crazy but in a good way)
Was very curious to read cuz i love lovecraft, and unanny, unsettling stuff so much, plus I never got to read any old gothic or whatever stuff in college.
Lotta stuff I loved The willows (about a creepy island in a river (like Nicolet island???) that has a mind of its own, or the kinda OG folk/fairy horror in the White People, and any thing by Ambrose Bierce. although when the stories didn't hit it was kinda a big bummer cuz some o this shit can be real dense.
But something that was kinda disturbing while read is that these stories of immense, undefinable horror, were written by so many fucked up dudes. Like of course we go huge xenophobes, but also fascists, and real deal sex criminals!! Made me queasy reading (and enjoying) some of those stories but in a sort of f’d up way it was almost thematically fitting that stories about unfathomable evil, were written by actually pretty evil dudes.
( I should say this was just a significant minority of the authors as far as i could tell, and not my beloved Ambrose Bierce who was also crazy but in a good way)