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ellama_rachel's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Found some short stories good, some less good.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Gaslighting, and Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Xenophobia
jigwam82's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.5
The thing about reading Lovecraft is that he was really in need of a good editor. Some of his prose is stunning and the ideas are astonishing, but sometimes his prose is too dense or repetitive. So a mixture of glorious and terrible. He was a hideous racist even for the time period, it's disgusting. But it's important to not erase writing like this lest we deify writers who had unconscionable opinions without knowing that was the case.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and War
briereader's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
My first time reading any of Lovecraft's work, and I wasn't really impressed. Even beyond the blatant xenophobia that pervades his work, I simply didn't find the horrors he described quite that horrifying. I don't think time treated the wok kindly (once more, even beyond the BLATANT and PERVASIVE xenophobia)--the once titillating and unimaginable horrors are honestly well within my understanding.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Suicide
erikwmj's review against another edition
Decided that I want to individually log all of thr longer stories at the end: The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Haunter Of the Dark. So technically I will be finishing this book. 34% is the point where the shorter stories stop and the longer ones begin.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia