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Seriously: this stuff is incomparable. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos (or, as he called it, "Yog-Sothothory") heralded a new age in supernatural fiction. So vivid, so cosmic, so vast and imaginative, it is the equal of Middle Earth, of Oz or Wonderland. HPL's view of humanity and the cosmos is deeply, darkly existential, almost nihilistic, and he used symbolic structures of his neuroses to portray that view. Had he but lived to see the true horrors of World War 2...
OK, OK, the stories! "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Color Out of Space" will still be read a hundred years from now for their controlled atmosphere of cosmic dread and awe. "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Shadow Out of Time" rank next, later stories that are a bit wordy but still powerful, unsettling, and unforgettable. They contain my favorite climaxes; Lovecraft had matured greatly as a writer since early tales like "The Outsider."
HP Lovecraft forced horror and supernatural fiction out of its infancy of vampires, ghosts and devils and into the adult world of a cold, uncaring, nearly malicious universe that we can scarcely comprehend. This collection belongs on the bookshelf of serious readers everywhere. ST Joshi is a marvelous editor and biographer of Lovecraft, and his efforts should not go unheeded. Kudos to Penguin for finally adding HP Lovecraft to their catalog of Twentieth Century Classics.
Lovecraft's influence reaches to this day - I can't imagine any of the "Alien" movies without Lovecrat's effect on H.R. Giger's conception. The "Blair Witch Project" could have been taken directly from a Lovecraft story (except for the language). Influenced himself by Poe, Lord Dunsany, Robert Chambers, and many others, Lovecraft managed to distill his own immediately identifiable style and capture the imaginations of generations of writers in the field. Long after Stephen King and Clive Barker have been relegated to the dustbin, readers AND writers will still find inspiration in the dark prose of the gentleman from Providence.
This collection is easily the best single volume available of Lovecraft's work, and a steal at this price. If you aren't familiar with the 20th Century's greatest writer of horror fiction, I can not urge you strongly enough to sample this book - I am certain that you will NOT regret it.
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