The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

1926 • 420 pages

Ratings5

Average rating3

15

Stand outs:
The Color Out of Space
Herber West Reanimator (Had read this one before and I love the very loosely adapted movies)

Also enjoyed:
The Whisperer in The Darkness (even though the main character is the naivest idiot alive apparently)
The Call of Cthulhu
The Picture in the House (Didn't think much of it at the time but looking back this is the only story that successfully creeped me out so it deserves a mention)
The Shadow Over Innsmout (This probably would have been a standout for me too if it weren't for the middle bulk where an old man tells the backstory of the place....I can't read accents lovecraft pls)

Generally the shorter stories were forgettable while the stories bordering on novellas were much more enjoyable.

All in all not bad for a dead racist/5

And specifically about this edition: While a lot of the notes at the end were interesting most of them were tangentially related and looking them up while reading took me out of the story. Like there would be a note to tell me a date in the story is close to the death date of Lovecrafts father.

July 3, 2018