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TieDyeDude
The Call of Cthulhu | H.P. Lovecraft
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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.“

#wickedwhispers @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Awesome 👏🏻 5mo
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Roary47
Dagon | H.P. Lovecraft
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Mehso-so

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

PuddleJumper 🐸🐸 5mo
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Maggie4483
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Finally have some time to get my #Bookspin list done. Only a week late, NBD.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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Roary47
The Music of Erich Zann | H. P. Lovecraft
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Mehso-so

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

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 6mo
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DrasticallyJill
Carter & Lovecraft | Jonathan L. Howard
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Pickpick

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.

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AroundTheBookWorld
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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. . . .”
#TheCompleteCthulhuMythosTales #HPLovecraft #lastline #closingline #book #books #booklist #booklust #Horror #Classics #Fantasy #Fiction #ShortStories #ScienceFiction #Lovecraftian #Anthologies ?

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Clare-Dragonfly
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Mehso-so

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!

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Clare-Dragonfly

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.

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Bookwomble
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"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference between those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
- The Silver Key ?️

Suet624 Great quote! 12mo
Bookwomble @Suet624 There's a rather philosophical start to this story that I like, and which shows that Lovecraft could be more than a pulp writer when he wanted to be. His publisher reported that there were a lot of complaints from his regular readers about this one, but it's become one of his best regarded over time. 12mo
Suet624 That‘s so interesting. 12mo
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Bookwomble
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"Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city, and three times he was snatched away while he paused on the high terrace above it."
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Included in the anthology I'm reading, this story is more whimsical than "At the Mountains of Madness", though it is linked to Lovecraft's horror stories through its main protagonist, Randolph Carter, and a selection of Cthulhu Mythos gods, notably Nyarlathotep. ⬇️

Bookwomble And while the Cats of Ulthar are cute, they will definitely eat you if you piss them off! 🙀
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
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