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    Dagon

    By H. P. Lovecraft

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    I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781627558907
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    H. P. Lovecraft

    Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).

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    • 5/5
      The other reviewer is mistaken to call these texts unedited, for they are the editorial work of S. T. Joshi. Joshi has labored to restore these texts, as close as possible, to Lovecraft's original versions; but in some cases those originals are not extant, and thus Joshi, using his intimate familiarity with Lovecraft's narrative styles, gives us the texts to what he feels is as close as possible to the originals. This edition is called a "Corrected Edition," and it repairs some of the poor editorial choices made by August Derleth when the initial Arkham House editions were published. A valuable Note on the Texts is included which succinctly describes what is what, what the sources for these texts are, &c. As a collection, this brings us Lovecraft in all of his creative variety. Although much of the contents is considered Lovecraft's "minor" tales, he was so original and possessed such a strange imagination that much of these stories are as fascinating and original as when they first appeared, almost one century ago. (It is weird to think how long ago these tales were written, because in my mind I still think of Lovecraft as a modern writer.) Lovecraft's originality comes, in part, from his working in all three genres of fantasy, science fiction and horror at times combining the genres so as to produce that which is now considered "Lovecraftian." The book begins with an excellent and lengthy Introduction by one of the greatest horror writers of all time, T. E. D. Klein (if you've not read his paperback collection, DARK GODS, seek it out and be amazed!), and concludes with Lovecraft's own remarkable survey of weird fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature." If you are new to Lovecraft I wouldn't begin with this book, but would rather choose THE DUNWICH HORROR AND OTHERS from Arkham House, or THE CALL OF CTHULHU AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES from Penguin Modern Classics.
    • 5/5
      So short, and still so vast. Lovecraft never disappoints. Ever.
    • 4/5
      The ancient house has always been there, and people say One dwells therein who talks with the morning mists that come up from the deep, and perhaps sees singular things oceanward at those times when the cliff’s rim becomes the rim of all earth, and solemn buoys toll free in the white aether of faery. This they tell from hearsay, for that forbidding crag is always unvisited, and natives dislike to train telescopes on it. Summer boarders have indeed scanned it with jaunty binoculars, but have never seen more than the grey primeval roof, peaked and shingled, whose eaves come nearly to the grey foundations, and the dim yellow light of the little windows peeping out from under those eaves in the dusk. These summer people do not believe that the same One has lived in the ancient house for hundreds of years, but cannot prove their heresy to any real Kingsporter. This volume includes a lot of Lovecraft's shorter stories, plus some of his earliest stories and unfinished fragments. My favourite stories include "The Strange High House in the Mist", which is extremely spooky and atmospheric without being frightening, and The Moon-bog which warns anyone who makes a lot of money not under any circumstances to buy their ancestral home and decided to renovate it. that never ends well. At the other end of the spectrum is "The Horror at Red Hook" which is rather unpleasant. The last ninety pages are taken up by Lovecraft's essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature", which covers the history of supernatural literature from its roots in myths and legend, through the Gothic novels of the late 18th century, and ending with Arthur Machen and M. R. James. Lovecraft manages to be insulting about practically every author he mentions, even those whose work he rates highly, such as Edgar Allen Poe whose "pretence to profound and obscure scholarship, his blundering ventures in stilted and laboured pseudo-humor, and his often vitriolic outbursts of critical prejudice must all be recognized and forgiven", and mocks Lord Lytton's "amusingly serious occult studies".Lovecraft doesn't seem worried about spoiling the end of the stories he mentions, but having read the essay I now have plenty more books and stories to add to my wish list.