Wieder sehr genossen. Auf jeden Fall irgendwann Reread.

Mon livre de salle d'attente idéal... Chaque histoire me permet de me détacher du lieu où je me trouve, même pour plusieurs heures.

Very nice compilation, specially as it focuses more on Lovecraft's successors (Colin Wilson, James Wade, J. Ramsey Campbell), who bring the mythos into a modern context--and a modern, less Lovecraft-affected style, for a change.

The opening trio of linked stories -- Bloch's tribute/sendup of HPL, followed by HPL's he-has-a-sense-of-humor rejoinder, and then Bloch's fond response after HPL's death -- is classic. It's a mixed bag from there: I liked Bloch's other contribution, Lumley's first and Wilson's, didn't think much of Campbell's or Wade's. Unnecessary, but not bad for a tribute volume.

This is a second anthology of stories set within Lovecraft's famous Cthulhu Mythos cycle, most from a later time than the contents of the first volume. In addition to Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark, which fits in with the cycle of Robert Bloch entries, there are stories by James Wade, Colin Wilson, two by Brian Lumley, and J. Ramsey Campbell (from before he lost the "J"). It's very much a continuation of the first volume, which I would say had superior stories for the most part. It could be...

The Robert Bloch stories in this collection are a real treat. If you love H.P. Lovecraft's breathless tales of cosmic horror, you should also read both volumes of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Great vintage stuff from an energetic era of powerful fiction.

Nette Sammlung an Geschichten, wenn auch nicht immer sehr gruselig. Diesmal waren die Kommentare wirklich hilfreich zum Verständnis mancher Aspekte der Geschichten, auch wenn man das oft gut und gerne in ein Vorwort zur Publikation und dann ein Kommentar zum Abschluss hätte teilen können. Dann hätte man die ganzen Spoiler verhindern können.

Love the man, but his stories are incredibly repetitive, predictable, and dragging on for too long.

I've only read the Cthulhu stories of Lovecraft, Howard and Bloch, so this was a good opportunity for me to check out some other writers takes.The first three stories in the book, one by Lovecraft and two by Bloch, make up an interrelated narrative and there's an interesting story behind that. Bloch asked Lovecraft if he could not only put him in a story but actually have Lovecraft die. Lovecraft thought that was a grand idea and gave Bloch his blessing. That story was "The Shambler From The Sta...

As much as I like the lore Lovecraft has created, actually reading the stories is difficult for me, because his writing style is very descriptive instead of lively. It's all tell and little show, although typical for the general writing style of the 19th/20th century, it's not very appealing to me.

Je nachdem ob man Fan ist kann einen diese Sammlung gefallen, aber ich tue mich wahnsinnig schwer mit dem Stil des Schreiben von L. H. Lovecraft. Die Geschichten sind spannend etc aber der Schreibstil ist einfach nichts meins. Deswegen neutrale 3 Sterne.

Berge des Wahnsinns - 5/5 (Highlight)Schatten über Innsmouth - 4/5Träume im Hexenhaus - 2,5/5Das Ding auf der Schwelle - 3/5Der Schatten aus der Zeit - 1/5Jäger der Finsternis - 3,5/5

I don't mean to say by giving this 5 stars that all of the stories are amazing - it is just a good, fun read and I didn't want to skip any of them. The first few are amazing though... it gets weighted down a bit by the James Wade and Colin Wilson stories at the end which are overlong, but again I still enjoyed them.

I have been picking up some of these Lovecraftian books at used bookstores. This one is by H.P. Lovecraft "and others" which is at least honest since there is one HPL story here. I liked it; honestly, some of the later writers like Robert Bloch are almost better than the original stuff. Plus there is a hilarious story about dolphins by James Wade.

It was this book that introduced me to Lovecraft. I still remember the day i read as if it were yesterday though it was 40 years ago! My whole view of the universe got rocked by Lovecraft's story 'the Haunter of the Dark' and the two sequels penned by Robert Bloch that appear in this volume. Every tale in here is by a classic horror writer! Some are from the 70s: Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley; others were contemporaries of HPL: August Derleth, Robert e Howard, and even Clark Ashton Smith. If y

These early volumes edited by Derleth show precisely the flaw of those who continued in Lovecraft's footsteps: the tightrope effort to avoid slavish pastiche of Lovecraft's style while also avoiding anything that contradicted either the worked-out mythos behind the stories or the general tenor thereof.

Fantastic collection of Lovecraft-inspired stories. My gosh, the line-up of authors is a dream team. Robert Bloch is always a special treat. Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley (the truest progenitor of Lovecraft mythos since H.P. himself). First stories are the best and it slows down a bit after that, but overall a stellar effort.

Non al livello del primo libro del ciclo di CthulhuRacconti carini tutto sommato. In particolar modo le storie sugli antichi. Serve una preparazione culturale non indifferente (che Lovecraft possedeva) per scrivere racconti che spaziano in ogni campo dello scibile umano. Sono costretto anche ad ammettere che i racconti qui raccolti non sono al livello del tomo precedente; "Il caso Charles Dexter Ward" a mio avviso è la perfezione assoluta relativa di Lovecraft, un racconto che lascia una traccia...

I am excited to finish this book as it contains all three parts of the Bloch/Lovecraft trilogy starting with The Shambler From the Stars. Thank you Powells' for having this gem on your shelves when I went for the Lovecraft Film Festival!Most of the stories were quite entertaining except for James Wade's _The Deep Ones_. It had a good start but Wade really wrote a challenge for himself in making dolphins seem ominous.

Nach Lektüre beider Sammelbänder reicht dann erstmal wieder, alles in allem ist Lovecrafts Werk zwar vielseitig, im Kern aber dennoch repetitiv. Was nichts daran ändert, dass die Innsmouth Geschichte zum besten gehört, was ich im Bereich Horror je gelesen habe.Die Sammlung ist in beiden Bänden mit klugen und informativen Kommentaren versehen, ich kann sie als Werkübersicht für Lovecraft uneingeschränkt empfehlen.