Mountains of Madness and Pickman's Model are pretty noteworthy in this, with references to the locales in and surrounding Leng from the first and the ghoulified character of Pickman from the latter. The To a Dreamer Poem was nice, if short but the main reason for this post is that I did want to say something about the Kadath story.Īt times monotonous with turgid, fabricated prose and at other times (though not often) surprisingly poetic, the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath's most interesting achievement is that it seems to rather explicitly tie together several stories in Lovecraft's oeuvre, mostly just by name-dropping, but in some cases reintroducing characters from other short stories. I also read the To a Dreamer poem and the rather extensive, and increasingly list-like the further that you get, Afterword: A gentleman of Providence. Last year somewhere I read the first, and earlier today, I finished the latter. The bulk of what was in those pages were the Curious case of Charles Dexter Ward which I was reasonably sure I had read before (but needed to re-read anyway because damn my compulsions, and good that I did at any rate because it's indeed a good one) and together with the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which I hadn't yet and which seemed incredibly dull reading, I held off for the longest time. Mostly because, for the longest time, I didn't care to read the last 200 pages on account of I didn't have much interest in actually doing so. It was a read that might've taken me as long as 6 years, I'm guessing. Illustrated by Les Edwards.Alright, I finished the 880 page Necronomicon. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive, highly attractive volume.Įdited with an Afterword by Stephen Jones. This handsome leatherbound tome collects together the very best of Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s.
Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect."
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