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Chargement... Waking up screaming : haunting tales of terror (édition 2003)par H. P. Lovecraft
Information sur l'oeuvreWaking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror par H. P. Lovecraft
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  milosdumbraci | May 5, 2023 |   –H. P. Lovecraft We've got a bunch of good classics here: Cool Air, The Hound, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Dagon, The Lurking Fear. Lovecraft can be a bit dry at times, but once he gets the story rolling- it really entertaining. I would say this is a good entry point to his work if you haven't read any of it yet. A common theme in Lovecraft's work are 'better off not knowing than knowing' or put even more simple, 'Some horrors are best left unknown and some mysteries are better left unsolved.' I read this many moons ago, but I'd recommend this one as an entry point for Lovecraft newcomers, even if this wasn't my first Lovecraft anthology. I think I actually preferred this one over his other anthology- Shadows of Death. My review can be found here: https://www.librarything.com/work/629718/reviews/228281408 (  ) am08279 | Oct 28, 2022 | ) Drunken-Otter | Aug 20, 2021 | What I liked: Cool Air The Terrible Old Man Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Shadow Over Innsmouth Herbert West - Reanimator Arthur Jermyn The Moon-Bog Dagon What I didn't like: The Hound, The Lurking Fear, and The Unnameable were all basically the same "monster" story told in three different ways. The White Ship was just a simple morality story. I totally wasn't expecting that. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the aforementioned 120 page snoozer. WAY too much time on the ancestor of CDW, with absolutely nothing going on. (  ) writertomg | Sep 6, 2017 | ) tamikathompson | Aug 9, 2015 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
ContientDagon par H. P. Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” –H. P. LOVECRAFT Welcome to the world of H. P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of terror. His work has inspired countless nightmares, and this collection of some of his most chilling stories is likely to inspire even more. Cool Air–An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward–Ward delves into the black arts and resurrects the darkest evil from beyond the grave. The Terrible Old Man–The intruders seek a fortune but find only death. Herbert West–Reanimator–Mad experiments yield hideous results in this bloodcurdling tale, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator. The Shadow Over Innsmouth–A small fishing town’s population is obscenely corrupted by a race of fiendish undersea creatures. The Lurking Fear–An upstate New York clan degenerates into thunder-crazed mole like creatures with a taste for human flesh. PLUS TEN OTHER SPINE-TINGLING TALES Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813Literature English (North America) American fictionClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (4.15)
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scary, though? Not at all, the 1920's terrors are ridiculous and not horrifying at all to the modern reader.
Also, the excessive use of "indescribable, unnameable, words cannot describe, unspeakable" and so on is annoying and boring; it was probably necessary to not outrage the prudish readers of its age, but today it feels like the author was too lazy to imagine the monsters himself, leaving that to the reader.
Mediocre. Maybe they are not his best, or maybe simply the real world got too dark to be impressed by Lovecraft's. I actually enjoyed Poppy Z Brite way more (she's a modern Lovecraftian). (