Penguin Orange Collection The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, (Paperback)

from stonester1

Loathesome. Cyclopean. Lovecraft likes those words and others that communicate both the repulsion and the otherworldly alienness that his human protagonists experience when encountering the otherworldly terrors of his mythos. In this case, you have an investigator who is running down a trail of c...

from bookwitch

What I like about Lovecraft's short stories is the way he created a whole mythology that not only links them together but pulls in strands from the stories of other horror writers of the era. A little Internet investigation will confirm this - whole dissertations have been written about it and Th...

from albertgoldfain

Filling in the gaps in my geek cannon, the "Call of the Cthulhu" has been on my list for awhile. What I liked most about the story was the Jules Verne style and level of descriptive detail. I also liked that it was told from the perspective of a rational mind confronting (in an almost fatalistic ...

from wilum

S. T. told me, in one of our live YouTube videos, that he considers this book, his first of three volumes for Penguin Classics, to be his single best, most important selection of Lovecraft's tales. I've reviewed the book below, but I want here to emphasize that I return to this single edition aga...

from elviomedeiros

After ploughing through the hard-to-read, truncated, cyber-punk craziness of Neuromancer, I went to the more "simple" and "traditional" The Call of Cthulhu. Ahhh, Lovecraft, isn´t it great to read such well written and immersive fantasy?! Will stay on this book for quite some time enjoying each o...