Category: Other Reviews

This short story is about the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock.

The whole plot of this short story was pretty good, but for me it was something missing in the plot so that’s why it didn’t get the full score in the plot category. But since you might know, I’m very picky so it isn’t anything new when I don’t give a high score to books, short stories and poems. 

The writing style was for me the best part about this short story. It was amazing and it almost felt like HP Lovecraft was in your head and knew what words to use in purpose to have you involved in the story. 

And the fact that this short story is sort of a horror drama got me involved even more in the short story. Horror drama is the only drama I’m into and the fact that this short story gives us that is amazing. 

For the most part this short story was an enjoyable read, however it had some very boring parts and there were some plot holes for me at least. 

There was some creepy moments in this one but come on, it could have been more of them to be honest. Or at least I watched too many horror movies and read too many horror books which made me immune to creepy and scary stuff. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

The text tells how the Necronomicon was penned by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred under the title Al-Azif. Alhazred died after being devoured by invisible demons in front of a terrified crowd. His work was subsequently suppressed, though survived. No original Arabic copies survive, nor any Greek translations. 

Before getting into this short story I thought that I wouldn’t like it because of the theme of this short story. But after reading it, I need to say that I loved it.

The writing style is so amazing in this one, and it screams that H.P Lovecraft wrote it and I love that. The writing style really had build the atmosphere in this one because it was so good.

The plot itself here isn’t really my type what I’ve enjoyed it enough to give it 4 stars. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the plot but I still appreciate it and found it interesting. 

For the most part this short story is nothing more than just a cute little short story with an eerie vibe in it.

I give this short story 4 / 5

It is a recording of a dream, where the protagonist is a Roman military official in the Vascon country near Pompelo. The countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible hill people who kidnap citizens and perform cruel rituals at a Sabbath. The narrator wishes to lead a military expedition to crush these hill folk, as a feeling of approaching evil has enveloped the countryside, due to a riot between the citizens and the hill people.

Ive heard negative things about this short story which really made my expectations ready low for this one however it was fucking good. This one is easily one of my favourite short stories from H.P Lovecraft. 

The plot here was good but not amazing. Ive truly enjoyed the plot in this one. But it could have been much better than it actually was. 

The writing style here was amazing. It really screamed H.P Lovecraft vibe, you could really feel the gothic vibe in this short story. 

In this short story H.P Lovecraft sort of flex his knowledge about the Roman ranks and history and I didn’t mind it.

This short story is also a strange one but presented to us like a dream rather than a story of an insane man.

I give this short story 4 / 5

In his dreams, Randolph Carter sees a majestic city, but is unable to approach it. After the third time the city appears in his dreams, his longing to reach the city reaches its peak. He prays to the gods of dream to reveal the city’s whereabouts, but then the city vanishes from his dreams altogether. Undaunted, Carter resolves to beseech the gods in person at Kadath, the mountain above which the gods of dream live.

So this one is another short story from H.P Lovecraft which involves a lots of talk about dreams. However this one is very, very good. 

The plot here was amazing, it was interesting, it was eerie, it had the sinister vibe to it, it was fun and so much more. I gotta say that the plot in this one was a typical H.P Lovecraft plot because there was so much to it which only few authors could handle to do and H.P Lovecraft was one of them.

The writing style was amazing. It really screamed that H.P Lovecraft have written it. You could really see the soul to H.P Lovecraft in the writing style in this short story. 

The narration of the story was amazing, it felt like Stephen King mixed with Edgar Allan Poe. And id you know me then you know that I love both of these two authors, but my favourite is definitely Stephen King.

I give this short story 4 / 5

Due to lack of funds, a student studying metaphysics abroad is forced to take up lodging in a cheap apartment building on a street named the “Rue d’Auseil”. The street is not far from his university and is bordered by a river, dark warehouses and a large wall, giving the street an appearance of being on a cliff. The student cannot see what lies on the other side of the wall, as only a single window on the top floor of his building looks over it.

This one is what I’ve always expect from H.P Lovecraft. It is super interesting, its eerie, it got that sinister vibe to it and I love it.

The plot here had some plot holes here and there but it was super fun to read and it was super interesting to read. However it had few down tripes but nothing which will ruin much this story for you.

The writing style here was amazing. The writing style here really speaks for itself and really gives you the huge H.P Lovecraft vibe. 

If you never read anything from H.P Lovecraft before and you want to start the journey somewhere then ill would say that this one is one of the nest stories to start the journey with. 

I give this short story 4 / 5

The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in his membership in the Boston Art Club being revoked and himself shunned by his fellow artists.

This short story blew my mind because it was fucking good, I didn’t really expect it to be so good as it was.

So far I gotta say that this short story might be one of my favourites stories from H.P Lovecraft.

The plot here was fucking good but still had some runs down the hill. Which really killed the mood here and the atmosphere which really made me sad.

This short story had some little bit scary moments in it which I truly enjoyed them. But if it comes to the whole story then it had an eerie vibe to it which I enjoyed and found it interesting. 

I give this short story 4 / 5

The narrator explains how he instigated a secret investigation of the ruined town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts—a former seaport isolated from other nearby towns by vast salt marshes—by the U.S. government after fleeing it on July 16, 1927. The investigation ultimately concluded with the arrest and detention of many of the town’s residents in concentration camps as well as a submarine torpedoing Devil Reef, which the press mistakenly reported as Prohibition liquor raids.

So far I’ve read a lot of H.P Lovecraft’s short stories and I gotta say that this one is the best one to start your journey with the man. 

The plot was good and had the potential to be much better than it actually was but of course yet again H.P Lovecraft didn’t use that potential. The plot had couple of down rides thought the 150 pages. 

The idea for the plot was amazing but it was a little but misused because it could have been so much better if only H.P Lovecraft took the right choice of how to tell the story. Because the way he choice to tell the story didn’t quite match the plot. This is at least how I felt about it.

The writing style was not the greatest, it could have been so much better Tham it actually was.

I give this short story 3 / 5

“Ibid” is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus, whose masterpiece was Op. Cit., “wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all.” The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels via Salem, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to a prairie dog hole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

This short story was a unique take on the biography category since it is a mocking biography of a Roman scholar Ibidus. 

The plot itself was okay for the most part, but I was expecting something more from it. But it didn’t live up to my expectations as you might expect. 

So far I need to say that this short story was the only one from H.P Lovecraft which exhibit any sense of humor. It did actually surprise me because I didn’t expect H.P Lovecraft to be into jokes.

The writing style was decent but nothing too impressive but at least it wasn’t bad like in some other short stories written by the man.

I give this short story 3 / 5