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⌈ Secret Post #2585 ⌋

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[Monster High]

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[Bryan Fuller, John Green]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Pretty Little Liars]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]

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[Reign]

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[Leviathan: the last day of the decade]

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[Sherlock Holmes]

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[Steam]

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Some of the writing is clunky; there's no question about that. Just the other night, I reread "The Outsider" and thought that the string of adjectives used to describe the "monster" the narrator sees was unnecessarily long. But the rest of the story was so captivating that I could forgive that unwieldy sentence.

It's always heartening to find someone else who enjoys (the majority, at least) of HPL's stories; it sounds as though we have a couple of favorites in common. Have you reread "The Festival" recently? Reading that story holds a place in my personal pantheon of Christmas traditions, along with watching the animated adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Seasonal appropriateness aside, the atmosphere is just gorgeous.

Holy crap, I'm not sure I've ever read that one!

Long(ish) story ahead: I first got into Lovecraft after buying an anthology book of his stories pretty much on a whim. It had (among others) "The Lurking Fear", "The Outsider", and "Shadow Over Innsmouth". I got a few others, often based on a particular story the other anthologies didn't have (for example, it took me a few anthologies before I got "Call of Cthulhu"). Then I got a Kindle, and one of the first things I bought was HP Lovecraft: The Complete Collection. Thing is, looking through the Table of Contents, I think there are several short stories I've missed. Oh, dear. (-:

I still kinda wanna finish CDW first, though...

By all means, finish "CDW" first. Is "Hypnos" one of the stories you missed on your earlier sojourn through the Lovecraft corpus? I recommend that, too; it has a wonderfully opiate tone and the most homoeroticism you'll find this side of the Vampire Chronicles.

As for the anthologies, were you purchasing the Del Rey collections--you know, the ones with the random, non-chronological ordering of stories and the lurid, non-indicative Michael Whelan cover art? From your description, it sounds as if your first HPL anthology book was Waking Up Screaming, which is also published by Del Rey but has a generic 3-D-ish skull on the cover. For some reason, that company decided to publish multiple HPL anthologies that often had several of the same stories in them rather than publish a few volumes that didn't repeat any stories. Their Best of H. P. Lovecraft is a solid compilation of his work, though the first story of his that I read was "Dagon" (in a Penguin edition that I found at Barnes and Noble), which I now advise people to read if they express the desire to introduce themselves to Lovecraft's fiction.

Re: "Hypnos" I think I did, yeah. Oooh, sounds fun. "The Hound"s a bit like that, too, what with the narrator talking about how he and his male friend were doing debauched, evil things together. (-:

Actually, the first Lovecraft book I got was The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. But, yeah, it was Del Rey. For that matter, I have the book you use in your secret, too. It's weird, I really like the cover art for the Del Rey books, but... most of the images aren't stuff from the stories...

"The Hound"s a bit like that, too, what with the narrator talking about how he and his male friend were doing debauched, evil things together. (-:

Those opening paragraphs are delightfully vague. Do you suppose Anne Rice was fond of that story? Speaking of stories you've missed, if you haven't read "The Horror at Red Hook," "He," or "The Street"...don't.

Well, the Whelan paintings Del Rey used for covers are stock art--the one on Best Of has also turned up on the cover of a death metal album, for instance. Stock cover art has been the bane of many a paperback book. You can view a gallery of Lovecraft covers here (http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/08/hp-lovecraft-paperback-covers-draining.html) and here (http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/08/hp-lovecraft-paperback-covers-ii-in.html)--and, while you're at the site, see a plethora of other horror covers for your delectation. The Webmaster's charting of the downward spiral of Zebra Books' cover art is amusing.

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