Ratings71
Average rating3.5
Contains spoilers
Este ha sido mi primer relato de Lovecraft y mi primera andadura en el terror cósmico, el libro es corto y realmente lo puedes leer en un solo día aunque yo lo he espaciado un poco.
Ha sido una lectura interesante, pero no sorprendente y mucho menos terrorífica, aunque haya alguna situación medianamente espeluznante o algo perturbadora, pero vaya nada que realmente te quite el sueño.
Básicamente el libro trata de una especie de diario escrito por un señor que relata ciertos descubrimientos perturbadores que aparentemente llevaron a su muerte o desaparición, la parte que más me llamó la atención fue la del culto ya que es la que me hizo sentir un poco en tensión y quizás perturbarme un poco, pero realmente no ahondan mucho ahí ya que despues de todo el libro es muy corto.
Recomendable? Te diría que si ya que es una lectura corta y te la puedes acabar en unas horitas si te pones. Pero lo que mencioné antes, me quedé un poco tibio.
Dicho esto, todavía me queda por adentrar en el mundo de Lovecraft y mi siguiente objetivo es "The call of cthulhu and Other Storier" ya os diré por allí que tal ese libro y si realmente despierta algo más en mi que la mera curiosidad por las obras de Lovecraft.
Short but a duly impactful and iconic story. By today's standards, The Call of Cthulhu probably wouldn't be considered remotely scary - except in how dense the writing is compared to contemporary horror - but it's still such a great study in cosmic horror. I like to call it the fear of the vast unknown.
The writing style might not be for everyone but if you're able to stomach it, I strongly recommend it for just about anybody who loves fantasy, sci-fi, and the idea of being tiny and insignificant in a vast and unknowable universe.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
It is interesting... racist, of course, but that would have come up sooner or later.
I like the “non euclidean geometry” that makes one uncertain of if the sea is level... and acute angles that behave like obtuse angles. Lovecraft's stories give one this kind of feeling, one isn't really certain of anything :-D
Reminds me of the great late Andrew Gold's The Creature from the Tub
“Clammy and slimy, gooey, yucky, grimy
Icky and sticky, hope it doesn't lick me
Wobbly, runny, “Mommy, it's not funny”
Watch out for the creature from the tub!”
I can't believe I just recently discovered Lovecraft. This story may be my favorite of his that I've read so far.
I really liked the story, honest. But I take a star for the large variety of racist terms that don't really add anything to the story and I take another star for the solution to a great old one rising to reclaim the planet is running it over with a boat. Put a damper in the terrible god like being.
3.75 ⭐️
sadly very underwhelming
might attempt to reread in the future
so far, not my favorite piece from this author