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Lovecraft is undoubtedly a master of atmospheric writing. His strength is in setting scenes and crafting an appropriate mood with which to manage the experience he's looking for from his readers. The opening paragraph of The Dunwich Horror is a fine example of this skill:When a traveler in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the brier-bordered ston...
After you're finished with The Call of Cthulhu and you feel as if you still have your senses about you (You think you do, but you don't. Good try though!), give The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories a go. Herein you'll find more possessed people and plenty others driven insane, as per usual.If nothing else, this is a wonderful foundational work on the Lovecraftian mythos that details in creepy color Cthulhu and that devilish book of magic, The Necronomicon. The language evoked by Lovecraft is mor...
I find myself wanting to read Lovecraft every time I pick up a Fallout game again. This time, quarantine has led me into Fallout 4, and a couple chances to visit the desolate mine of Dunwich Borers, undoubtedly one of the most well-made eerie places in video game history. I thought, however, that I had read the story which the mine references. Apparently not. And so it provided a nice entry point to a new Lovecraftian journey.The Dunwich Horror is classic Lovecraft, firmly in the Cthulhy mythos,...
When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean’s Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country.The Dunwich Horror is set in the isolated and derelict village of Dunwich, and is the story of an isolated and derelict family - the Whateleys. The story is centered around the youngest Whateley, Wilbur, who is a most unusual person - son of an albino mother and an unknown father, he grows up much faster than other childr...
HP Lovecraft’s tales are dominated by a mounting sense of dread; however, the amount of time he spends creating this atmosphere is often at odds with moving the narrative forward in an effective way. For me, that means I enjoy HP Lovecraft’s tales (and his mythos), but I haven’t always cared much for his writing. In Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft evokes a nameless, ancient terror without sacrificing the story. Once the Necronomicon is opened, our world becomes linked with the world of the Ancient One...
I'm going to have to think up a name for a shelf on GoodReads for these types of books. They're not quite fantasy or sci-fi, not quite gothic and not quite wholly esoteric. Maybe just "Lovecraftian" will have to do...Much like his other works, this was sublimely written. The story seemed much more fleshed out and seemed to have a linear purpose beyond just being a short story about esoteric dealings and horrific things from the blackness etcIf I weren't so lazy I'd look up the chronology of this...
(Full review 1/19/17)1978 Jove mass-market with cover art from the always excellent Rowena Morrill.This version of the book doesn't feature all the stories listed on this page (which is for the Arkham House editions). It includes: "In the Vault," Pickman's Model," "The Rats in the Walls," "The Music of Erich Zann," "The Haunter of the Dark," "The Dunwich Horror," and "The Thing on the Doorstep," most of which are top-tier Lovecraft, imo, ones I hadn't read in 20 years or so until now. It also fe...
I was very excited to read speculative fiction of the last 100 years, each month, a decade at a time, for all of 2022. I decided, thankfully, to add on lit fic/fiction of the time to add context. I might end up abandoning the project for the gen fic side project if it doesn’t improve. The first two months (covering 1910-1919 in January and 1920-1929 in February) have been a gruelling slog through the works of the “fathers” on spec fic, most of which were high on eugenics and misogyny. This stuff...
This book was my first exposure to H. P. Lovecraft, way back in 1991 or so. I was eleven years old. The book shook my world to its very foundations. At the time, isaac Asimov was my favourite writer, but Lovecraft showed me how to appreciate moody, lapidary writing full of atmosphere and dripping with menace. I gave the book five stars mostly because of its revelatory impact on me and my personality, even though if I had discovered Lovecraft for the first time today, especially being familiar no...
Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. I can see why many screenwriters have taken from pages of Lovecraft's characters. It seems that The Dark Tower series by King has a lot of inspiration from these elements in Dunwich Horror and other stories. A dark malevolent force of evil has taken over Dunwich is there hope?You are taken through the accounts and findings of this evil, a very good tale. "Young Wi...
You know that feeling when you read an author and think...where have you been all my life? When a story is just so perfect for you that you think you might have written it in another life. I thought I was imagining things when I noted a hint of racism, but apparently it's a thing with H.P.Deliciously dark and wonderfully weird. Cosmic horror at its finest.
