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A story that blends the terrors of Jim Crow America and Lovecraftian horror with a little bit of history, occult, and fantasy thrown in.

This is such a good book. The writing and story are fantastic. I love how bookish some of the characters are. Highly recommend.

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+26 points #FrightClub

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In “The Call of Cthulhu“, H. P. Lovecraft describes a statue of Cthulhu as: “A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.“

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3✨ Another water based creepy short story. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken @PuddleJumper

Finally have some time to get my #Bookspin list done. Only a week late, NBD.

3✨ Short creepy story of our POV characters noisy neighbor. The neighbor is Erich Zahn who plays every night. Over time the music seems to change and our narrator finds out why. 😬 #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

Read once, listened to on Hoopla twice. Look, I never really got into the whole HPL science beyond Wikipedia-ing the plots and other elements. But the reimagined scenario within Carter & Lovecraft is beyond fun. The dialogue (internal and external) acts as ‘reality‘, with characters as individuals. It‘s sardonic and easy to put together (as much as one can with cosmic horror and rare book sellers)-even if you associate HPL with cringe.

There is a monstrous odour . . .senses transfigured. . .boarding at that tower window cracking and giving way. . . .Iä . . .ngai. . .ygg. . . .
“I see it—coming here—hell-wind—titan blur—black wings—Yog-Sothoth save me—the three-lobed burning eye. . . .”
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I guess this is what I expected of Lovecraft. Strange explorations, monstrous creatures of time long past, it‘s so scary when the monstrous creatures are actually just people (i.e., racism). It was pretty slow and boring, and for the most part I felt like I was being told it was scary, not shown. It did get creepy toward the end, though, and I did like the ending—I appreciated that the narrator did figure out that the monsters were just people!

I feel like I‘m reading a mildly interesting anthropological study of a hitherto unknown alien race, and occasionally being told “and it was sooooo scary.” I do not feel like I‘m reading a horror story.