I read a handful of the stories before I gave up. Some of them were decent. Some were mediocre. Some were downright bad. None was worth a second read. I keep hoping that I'll find Lovecraftian mythos fiction I can really enjoy, but most of it just isn't interesting.I suggest reading Fall of Cthulhu Vol 1: The Fugue instead. It's very different but also much better.

Pretty dumb, by and large. What I don't get about the Price anthologies is a general reverence for Brian Lumley as a 'masterful' Mythos writer when he's nothing of the sort.

A mixed bag. Some of the stories had a good hook, while others just didn't capture my imagination. I did like the parody story(Or WAS it a parody story?). Overall, a worthy read.

3.5/5. The best stories I think were in the second half of the book.

A solid collection of short stories all inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. As with all anthologies, there are some weak points (hence the three stars), but overall they are good. At times they can be a little redundant, but if you enjoy Lovecraft's style, you'll enjoy this collection.

As with many of Robert Price’s anthologies it seems, this collection is much better in the back half. That being said, just the like the rest of his anthologies, it’s also an extremely good sampling of the second great wave of mythos writers. I’d recommend this to any big Lovecraft mythos fan.

I really enjoyed this book.The stories did get a little redundant but the book is supposed to be about the Mythos.I read a story or two and then read something different so I didn't get sick of the theme.All in all a nice book to have in my 'Lovecraft' collection.The stories had the flavor of being 'older' which I much prefer to the newer Mythos stories.I liked Cthulhu 2000 but I liked this book much better.

Två stjärnor för Ramsey Campbells Lovecraftkloner som faktiskt var bra, om än originella, och Ligottis fantastiska "Vastarien". Jag orkade inte läsa alla de andra.

There are a lot of anthologies out there that present writers who are following in Lovecraft's footsteps as they play around in his mythos. This anthology is no different, though Price states that he believes these authors to be the next circle of Lovecraft writers to follow the initial circle that were friends/wrote with with the famous author. It's a good premise for an anthology, and one that is different than a lot of the 'modern' Lovecraft writers anthologies you see around these days.My fi...

Like all Price compiled anthologies, this one is rather uneven in story quality, with Lin Carter's (as usual) and "H.P. Lowcraft"s contributions as particularly low points. Even Brian Lumley's contribution "The Kiss of Bugg-Shash" was a more than a little disappointing, and I normally quite enjoy his work.Highlights included Ramsey Campbell's contributions (which I'd unfortunately had elsewhere already) as well as Alan Dean Foster's "The Horror on the Beach".One thing that is happily notable in

I first came upon this collection back in 2006 or so, while browsing a local bookstore back home. It was summer, and I remember tearing into it with abandon (I didn't really have much else to do, and I was still at a point in my live when devouring a book quickly as much easier than it currently is). I was taken by this collection. Not all of the stories are great, of course - but that's a problem that one runs into with almost all collections - and the editor purposefully includes a few of less...

A really good collection - enjoyed almost every single story which is fairly rare. I will be reading this again when enough passes.

Odd title for an odd anthology. Members of the original Lovecraft circle had two things in common: a friendship (at least via correspondence) with H.P. Lovecraft and enough writing talent to take “Yog Sothery” and adapt it to their own purposes. Though no new authors can now lay claim to the first part of circle membership, I’d hoped that if anything that might leave later generations even more freedom to fulfill the second criterion. This new club has many successful members, several of whom ha...

This is a bit of an unusual Lovecraft collection. A good deal of these stories are far more mythos/Derelth inspired. The hard-core Lovecraft fan is likely to be put off adventure tales of folks racing for an elder sign to stop the unspeakable horror that the cultists are trying to raise.[return][return]That being said, there's a pretty wide range of Lovecraftian inspired stories, including several humor pieces. There's also a stated goal in the introduction on using lesser published stories (at

I guess these stories would seem fantastic and horror-filled for a 12 year old boy who hasn't read much. But, I just found them dull and repetitive. I know that many find the Lovecraft cycle fascinating, and there is a a cult (if not cultic) following. But, well, bleh. I read through the stories mostly out of respect for the editor, whom I know and whose scholarly work I rate highly. And a couple of the stories are okay, including the one Bob himself wrote. But, the worthy material takes up abou...

Uneven quality w/several of these stories being bad to mediocre, and while a few are well written, they are all burdened w/Lovecraft's mythos to the point of campy sameness

As with most anthologies the quality was a little uneven. That said, I did like more of them than I disliked.

To be honest, I went into this book with a pretty negative attitude. I'm not a big fan of Lovecraftian writing these days. I'm still cool with actual stories written by Lovecraft, but those written with the intent of emulating his? I've become bored with them. It's always the same thing, over and over again. Very few writers bring anything new to the mythos. I'm not talking about adding a monster here or a forbidden tome there; I mean the Lovecraftian tale has not changed with the times, for the...

Mostly very good and consistent quality of the short stories contained within this collection. All of them worthy of a reading. Some of them pay more homage to Lovecraft than others, but that said they're better than average.

I've been a fan of Lovecraft and Lovecraft inspired stories since High School. Hard to explain the appeal, but it is lasting once one is hooked.