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It's been a few years but I recall really liking The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. The old fashioned correspondence between his ancestor and his ancestor's weirdo European necromancer buddies was neat. I don't remember being frightened, but there were a few moments of sinister dread when I realized what the antagonist was up to.
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Barry Foster posted:I remember reading 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' late at night, in a bed, in a house by the sea. The scene near the end where the protagonist turns around, as he's trying to make his escape, to see a bunch of things swimming rapidly after him across the moonlit water chilled me to the bone. As I recall, and it's been a few years now, he'd only met, at that point, relatively 'normal' people, so the feeling that he'd finally provoked something completely alien and implacable was overpowering. I didn't want to look out the window, just in case I'd done the same by reading about it. Yeah, I listened to this while driving out in the middle of nowhere on the I-5 sometime after midnight. Really liked this story and recommend everyone try and listen to it while driving in darkness somewhere.
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Yeah, I don't feel any shred of concern over coming off as defensive when I say that that critique is embarrassing and suggests the author simply has not read much HP Lovecraft, or if they have, then they read it with a completely shut mind (probably over-eager to write this piece..). Joyce Carol Oates's essay on HP Lovecraft strikes me as a much more engaged and genuine analysis. fozzy fosbourne fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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