Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.
???Arthur Machen (quoted as an introduction to ???The Horror at Red Hook???)

Everyone must read a little Lovecraft and Blackstone Audio???s recently published edition of Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft is, in my opinion, the perfect way to do that. Like re-animated corpses, Lovecraft???s most popular stories from the 1920s and 1930s pulp magazines are brought back to life by some of the best readers in the business: Paul Michael Garcia, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, Keith Szarabajka, ... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/necronomicon/

Individual stories are good. The atmospheric horror that the author builds and the final pay off is wonderful. But it is a task to read the whole book at a go. These stories were written in several magazines over the course of decades and these are meant to be read like that. Maybe one story every month or so. I tried to read the whole book at a go and it severely hampered the experience. But there is no denying that Lovecraft crafts great stories...