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Overall this is a strong collection of stories, diversifying Lovecraft's stories and managing to do it in a very natural way. For me, though, it could have used more variation in tone and mood to really shine. There were some standouts that I absolutely loved - De Deabus Minoribus Exterioris Theomagicae, by Jilly Dreadful, plays with the idea of a woman performing a bibliographic study on a book that would have been better left unread. The tone shift over the course of the story is a masterpiece...
A cracking anthology with barely a dud among the long list. Very impressive stuff. Powerfully feminist and diverse (wouldn't ol' HP have hated that), creepy to scary, well edited, and a good variety. Standouts for me were The Thing on the Cheerleading Squad by Molly Tanzer (great title, horrific playout), the poetically creepy Bring the Moon to Me by Amelia Gorman, and Eight Seconds by Pandora Hope, which was one of the very few stories to have a message of anything other than the eternal darkne...
I didn't like every story in this collection equally well. Interestingly this doesn't mean it is an uneven collection - it is not. It just attests to the variety on display here. There are so many Lovecraftian collections out there that suggest the genre is a boy's club. This collection amply displays that women writers have much to say and much to contribute to the eldritch tale. Many of these stories focus on female figures from Lovecraft's tales - Lavinia Whatelay, Asenath Whaite and memorabl...
The cure, or at least a step in the right direction, for anyone who enjoys weird sci-fi/horror but has ever finished a Lovecraft story thinking "wow, that was pretty racist!" or "why were there absolutely no women in that entire story?"
She Walks in Shadows / B014NLK4EISWiS out of Innsmouth Free Press is an all-woman Lovecraftian anthology of original stories and art, and it is a lovely addition to any library. I read it over Halloween, dragging myself out of a particularly nasty reading slump, and was delightfully terrified by several of the stories. (I never before thought I would be terrified of corn, ya'll. Corn.) Let's get the warnings and shopper-caveats out of the way first. 1. As with any anthology, some of the stories
Reviews are hard for me to write, and I've been doing them more rarely than I'd like.This book is really really good.The stories have a huge range of setting, of style, of tone. There's the light humour of door-to-door evangelism for Shub-Niggurath, the bravery and horror in "Eight Seconds", the slow familial chill of "Bitter Perfume", the language and construction of "Lockbox"...Oh my goodness, "Lockbox".This is a book that brings the Mythos into everything from knitting to rodeo riding, cheerl...
When you delve into Lovecraftian territories, it's often difficult to please everyone. Perhaps you enjoy the Mythos stories, but not the Dreamlands types of tales, or vice versa. Perhaps you're reading for the language, or for the ideas, or for the horror. It is supremely difficult to deliver on all of them.This book does a pretty good job of walking that line. The stories here are all creepy in a very Lovecraftian way, though some are quiet and intimate tales, while others are death and destruc...
Favorite stories :Bring the Moon to Me by Amelia GormanDe Deabus Minoribus Exterioris Theomagicae by Jilly DreadfulLavinia's Wood by Angela SlatterLockbox by E. Catherine ToblerMagna Mater by Arinn DemboShub-Niggurath's Witnesses by Valerie Valdes
I was lucky enough to read this book in manuscript form. The first of two long-needed all-women Lovecraft anthologies--both funded by Kickstarter, both of which I backed, both of which funded nicely, showing the demand for this sort of thing. The second, Dreams from the Witch House is coming from Dark Regions Press and editor Lynne Jamneck soon.This volume shows that not only is there a demand for Lovecraftian stories by diverse writers, there's a wealth of great material to be mined there. Fill...
I recommend this collection to everyone that enjoys Lovecraft (duh) but also for folks that want a very well rounded, diverse and thoughtful reading experience. The rich background of the writers has created a very compelling take on horror.When I broke down my ratings of individual stories it worked out to 70.8% approval. Some of the medium-rare range stories (early middle to middle) didn't work with me. Upon finishing the book and some reflection I wish there had been more women adventurers, g...
8+ I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of weird fiction and cosmic horror in the style of H.P. Lovecraft. The creator of the Cthulhu-mythos was a racist and a bit of a misogynist (at least he didn't feature many female protagonists in his stories). According to the introduction in horrorfandom the idea had long festered that this kind of horror was the domain of male authors. The editors went out to prove these voices wrong and collected Lovecraftian horrorstories by women about women. There's
Personally I found this collection to be very lacklustre. Short stories is not a form I read often, I must admit, and so I am not used to critiquing the genre. However, I just found most of the stories in here to spend 90% of their time in exposition, only for the plot to suddenly hit and escalate in the final paragraph. Having now read this formulaic structure many times in this book, I am beginning to realise it is likely a feature of this genre of story. Unfortunately this just was not for me...
