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I have both the Centipede and Dark Regions editions and while the Centipede is the much more comprehensive edition, it does not have the excellent Jason V. Brock story "The Man with the Horn," which is only in the Dark Regions edition.The Dark Regions edition excludes the T.C Boyle story while adding the Brock story. It excludes the art galleries, comics, and the Lovecraft stories themselves. It does include a number of the illustrations. In a somewhat bizarre editorial oversight the author biog...

One of the most consistently good neo-Lovecraftian anthologies I've read, which is not surprising, given Joshi's stature in the field. Under his deft editorial hand the reader is treated to a fine selection of tales spanning close to a century (from 1933 to the present), each of which engages with Lovecraft and his legacy of cosmic horror in a markedly different way, yet as a whole flow and ring tonally true throughout. Not a single story bored me, and I tore through all 600+ pages of A Mountain...

4.5 starsA generally high-quality collection of Mythos tales edited by master Lovecraft scholar Joshi, giving an overview of Lovecraftian fiction from outside the main circle of authors, from the 1930s to the present day. Stand out stories: "[Anasazi]" Gemma Files, "John Four" Caitlan R. Kiernan, "A Gentleman form Mexico" Mark Samuels, "...Hungry...Rats..." Jospeph S. Pulver, "Far Below" , "The Deep Ones" James Wade, "In The Shadow of Swords" Cody Goodfellow, "Sigma Octantis" by and, of course,

I find it ironic and hypocritical that in his introduction Joshi claims the stories in this collection are all original in nature with just the influence of Lovecraft while he berates the works of August Derleth and Brian Lumley as "unimaginitve mimicry". Yet, in the first half of the book nearly every single tale is nothing but the same old pastiche and blatant rip-off pilfering of Lovecraft's works, even by some of the more famous authors. In the second half there are more examples of stories

About three years ago, I began reading THE CTHULHU MYTHOS by the self-appointed successor to H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth. As I look back over this dust-covered tome, I find that I'm not quite halfway through it in all of that time. While there are good moments in it, it suffers from the worst writing traits of Lovecraft ... that is numbingly long blocks of narrative and a pretentious aura of self-importance. Unlike the best of Lovecraft, it's not original. That is why this collection of short...

Excellent anthology. Buy it for Stanley C. Sargent's "The Black Brat of Dunwich" alone. I know people like scary monsters but "The Dunwich Horror" was just begging for a deconstruction or perspective flip. Is Wilbur Whateley really an irredeemable abomination or just the product of being born into a household of poverty, squalor, dysfunction, untreated mental illness, and social isolation and having to deal with what are basically severe congenital deformities on top of that? A Mountain Walked a...

This is a large collection of stories either directly related to the Cthulhu mythos or related closely enough to not really have any true difference.Like most collections there are ones I really liked and others which I quickly flipped through because they just weren't my cup of ichor.It's overall a good collection. I utterly LOVED the Neil Gaiman story. The actual story was a bit disjointed but the description and evocative prose he used shows why Neil is a master storyteller.Another one, Hungr...

Eclectic but FascinatingThis collection of short stories varies wildly in time - from slow investigations with sinister implications, to first-person examinations of the strangeness of alien minds. Every story in this collection holds some element of interest, but a few are a little too light of content to be entirely satisfying.The two stories, "House of the Worm" and "Black Man with a Horn", are truly exceptional, and exactly fit my taste in Lovecraftian fiction - it's worth reading for those

I love how these stories take Lovecraft's mythos and produce stories better than Lovecraft himself. The tales here embrace diversity as opposed to using it as a horrific element or plot device.Favorite stories from this collection were:- "Spawn of the Green Abyss" by C. Hall Thompson- "The Deep Ones" by James Wade- "The Last Feast of Harlequin" by Thomas Ligotti- "Only the End of the World Again" by Neil Gaiman- "The Black Brat of Dunwich" by Stanley C. Sargento- "In the Shadow of Swords" by Cod...

So-so readA series of stories based on the Cthulhu Mythos. The quality of the stories varied greatly. Neil Gaiman was the name that drew me in but his was not the best. His story about a werewolf in Innsmouth didn't really work for me. There was more horror in reading about something that was slowly decimating the land and learning more about what caused it. I think Lovecraft is hard to write and these stories are generally average.

The relationship that I share with the Cthulhu mythos is not a very robust one. There are some stories that hold me in thrall, some that unsettle me, some that draw me in but a lot many of them bore me to tears. There are imaginative retellings which use Lovecraft’s alien entities in the most terrifying ways possible but a lot many of the mediocre retellings have the authors perambulating the same beaten paths with dismal results. The name of S.T. Joshi, one of the foremost scholars of Lovecraft...

3.5? 3.75? This was a hard one to rate. I've given it a lot of thought and am still unsure where it falls. Anthologies, as I (and countless others on Goodreads) have noted before, are by their very nature a mixed bag, and A Mountain Walked is no exception. I'm reminded of the old nursery rhyme:There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead.And when she was good,She was very, very good.And when she was bad she was horrid.For the most part AMW succeeds admirably: m...

This is a massive book. At over 600 pages long, be prepared to have your thirst for Yog-Sothothery thoroughly quenched. I'm happy to say this anthology is a winner. Sure there are duds (what anthology doesn't have them?), but they're overshadowed by some of the most entertaining Mythos stories I've read in some time.Here's the breakdown by story.(1) The House of the Worm by Merle Prout: 4/5This was a fine introductory story that really set the tone for the anthology. Two hikers/outdoorsmen find

Excellent collection put together by Joshi, so many good tales, so many Mythos examples. Hungry....Rats and Where Yidhra Walks, and so much more. Well worth the time and a good add to your library, some more authors to read. Check it out.

Enjoyable collection, overall. A few duds, but none that I actively loathed. By and large, the more whimsical ones were not to my taste. I included the years for each story because I was surprised to find several older works at the beginning. Note that there are at least two different editions of the collection. My Kindle edition is missing the art portfolios, any art-based stories, as well as some of the text stories, and has, oddly, added one story not in the original. There is some artwork, a...

Absolutely stunning collection by Joshi. I've been sort of disenfranchised with Lovecraftian fiction as I've explored other areas of weird this past year but this reinvigorated my love for the Cthulhu mythology. The artwork here is amazing--they even got one of my favorite genre artists John Kenn Mortensen (see "Sticky Monsters") to contribute to this amazing book (or should I call it a work of art?). The book starts with three amazing stories from authors that I hadn't heard of before (some of

There are some very good stories in here but I really didn`t like anything from the big names ...This is quite a trend lately. And it`s like a small paradox.Because the editor is hoping to sell more books because of the names on the cover but in fact their stories aren`t quite satisfactory.But in the end this is a must for a fan of Lovecraft Mythos or of good old horror stories.Love it!

Wow. This collection is both huge and exceptional. Too bad HPL did not write as well as these authors inspired by his works.