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Descend into the nerve-shattering realm of America's master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft–to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take a chance. . . . All you can lose is your sanity.
The Doom That Came to Sarnath–The magnificent city had wealth beyond measure, but no riches could save it from a ghastly day of reckoning.
The Shunned House–He vowed to rid the odious structure of the brooding horror that clung to it, but evil would not go gently.
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath–Desperate to understand his tormenting vision, one man begins a forbidden and nightmarish journey.
The Tomb–The old Hyde family crypt held a gruesome attraction for a boy, until he communed with the dead and learned their secrets.
The Shadow Out of Time–The quest to understand the devouring force that once possessed a scholar leads a man to the other side of the world, where all will be revealed in one hideous, unholy night.
PLUS ELEVEN OTHER MACABRE TALES OF PURE TERROR
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Charles Taylor
reviewed Shadows of Death on July 31, 2014 Shadows of Death
After a long, wonderful childhood of Lovecraftian horror films, I finally got my cherry popped. Actually, I wasn't even aware of the label "Lovecraftian" until recently watching Re-Animator and From Beyond, two awesome movies everyone should watch.
I started this book only knowing it would be dark, have monsters, and would test the boundary of sanity. Besides that vague idea, I didn't even know when or where he was born. Some guy on the inside cover called him a "rock star of horror." Imagine my surprise on being confronted by a prose reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe. Not that I don't like Poe (whom I believe penned the immortal words, "Prose before hoes"), but the dusty classical style doesn't necessarily ring "rock star" compared to a fat line of Hunter Thompson. But as the pages turned, his strange creatures crawled into my brain.
Lovecraft is truly the king of nightmares. He's the guy that Freddy Krueger fantasizes about under the covers. So many times I've heard the word "nightmarish" strewn over writers like cheap handfuls of confetti. Lovecraft's descriptions of the dream dimension are so vividly described and elaborate that I began to question how much was fiction. Would I close my eyes that night and see the gods on the mountains and wretched giant worms wallowing at the ocean floor of my dreams?
His beautiful, dark poetry cannot be contained by the categorization of horror because it does not address the sublime nature of his work or the sense of exploring the uncharted second half of our existence when we sleep. This story collection will especially please anyone interested in Carl Jung and dream theory. Reading Lovecraft, you'll get the unshakable feeling of discovering the records of an inter-dimensional explorer.
Sweet dreams.
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