Category: Other Reviews

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft’s fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

Gotta say that this short story was kind of good in a way, but not the best I’ve read from H.P Lovecraft. It wasn’t disappointing at least which gives this short story extra points.

I personally found this short story kind of dull. This is because the plot in this one was boring and uninteresting but it had 1 or 2 good moments here and there. But overall it didn’t capture my attention and I had, had hard time trying to focus on it while reading it.

I also feel like this short story was a little bit too wordy and the descriptions in this one were a little bit off if you ask me. However it had some good descriptions here and there so ill give this short story points for that

The scary part in this short story didn’t exists which is sad because you know H.P Lovecraft wrote it. This short story had some moments where it gave you chills but these moments were very rare but still they were here.

I give this short story 2 / 5

Robert Blake – a young man with an interest in the occult – becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on a hill which he can see from his lodgings. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.

This short story is one of the most popular short stories by H.P Lovecraft. It seems like everyone who have read it truly loved this short story but it didn’t work for me maybe because I’m super harsh for everything I read lately. 

The plot was super boring and it felt like it was building a none existing tension to just go nowhere with it. I really had hard time trying to focus on this short story because me attention couldn’t just stand this short story. And I just ended up with DNF-ing it

The writing style in this one was pretty decent but still it wasn’t the best and it wasn’t on the H.P Lovecraft level was you might have thought. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

The Shadow Out of Time indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended time and place. The story implies that the effect, when seen from the outside, is similar to spiritual possession. 

And yet again we are here to talk about 1 star short story from none other than H.P Lovecraft.

I gotta say that this sort story was essentially the same story as At the Mountains of Madness. And that short story didn’t go well just as this one. 

The plot is almost the same as in At the Mountains of Madness but it takes place in Australia.Which really pissed me off because it felt like reading At the Mountains of Madness over again.

The writing style is bad but not as bad as it was in previous short stories I’ve reviewed. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter’s estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter’s acquaintances of his ultimate fate. He explains that the key took Carter to a type of higher dimension. There, Carter, on an ill-defined mission (or out of sheer curiosity), travelled strange sections of the cosmos by first meeting with ‘Umr at-Tawil, a dangerous being warned of in the Necronomicon, saying those who deal with it never return.

You know what maybe it is just me who is being to harsh on everything I read now on days because we are yet again talking about another disappointing short story by H.P Lovecraft.

The  plot in this one is super boring probably the worst and most uninteresting short story by H.P Lovecraft so far at least. Ive really had 0 interest for this short story while reading it and my attention wasn’t having it with this short story.

The writing style here is super bad again, which really are slowly stopping to disappoint me because there are more and more of short stories by H.P Lovecraft which aren’t working well with me at this point. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

Daniel Upton, the story’s narrator, explains that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer. He begins by describing Derby’s life and career. Derby had been interested in the occult even as a very young boy, which led to him befriending Upton. The two would discuss dark mythology in their spare time. 

Maybe H.P Lovecraft isn’t for me because I lost the count of how many of his short stories I gave one star to.

The think which made me truly hate this short story was that it was sexist as fuck. I can’t believe how many people like this book because I hate it. And I don’t know why more people who have read this short story doesn’t comment on this. 

The plot here was super bad, it was so bad that I don’t really remember what it was about because my brain deletes immediately super bad things from its memory which in the end is hoof because I don’t have to remember them.

The writing style here was also super bad it was so far from H.P Lovecraft as it could get. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.

And yet again we are talking about other not so good short story written by H.P Lovecraft. Which is really disappointing because I want to love all of his short stories but so far it didn’t happen. 

This one was way too long, and not enough of action. This short story was so uninteresting and boring because there was nothing happening in this one which really made me angry.

The writing style itself wasn’t better than the aspect we talk about above. The writing style felt like it was written by a junior high school student who just didn’t give a shit.

The plot was so stupid and very uninteresting. There was nothing happening in this short story which would be worth reading. The scary part in this short story didn’t exists here. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries –and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization–is a milestone of macabre literature.

After reading multiple short stories by H.P Lovecraft which weren’t the best I gotta admit that I hadn’t had so high expectations for this one. Which is good because if I had expectations for this one I would have been disappointed.

The overall plot in this one is very boring and not much to talk about here because it was so uninteresting. The plot was ask about a vision about the antarctic and the discoveries which were made in this short story. But come on, the world is full of this kind off stories that something is found in island where not a lot of people live or go to.

When it comes to the details in this short story then you gotta know that there were too much of them. There were too many details but very little action in this short story which really pissed me off. 

And the first 15 % of this book was just an introduction to H.P Lovecraft, and the rest of it was a short which would cure the heaviest and worst insomnia which anyone could have.

This short story wasn’t scary at all, or even a little bit creepy nor eerie which again wasn’t great because we are talking about H.P Lovecraft. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

The narrator, an unnamed surveyor from Boston, describes his attempts to uncover the secrets behind a shunned place referred to by the locals of the hills west of Arkham as the “blasted heath”. Unable to garner any information from the townspeople, the protagonist seeks out an old and allegedly crazy man by the name of Ammi Pierce, who relates his experiences with a farmer named Nahum Gardner and his family who used to live on the property.

First of all the lack of character development really pissed me off in this short story because if this short story actually had the character development aspect in it then this short story would be so much better than it actually was. 

The plot in this one was super bad, because it was super uninteresting and super boring. However there were a few moments where this short story started going a little bit up the hill but these moments didn’t last so long. To actually take it anywhere good.

The writing style was pretty decent overall, but yet again there were moments where the writing style started to dive a little bit to just come back to the “okay” level. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death!

I gotta be honest with you on this one, and say that I DNF-ed this one because I just couldn’t finish it because it was so uninteresting and boring. 

It didn’t feel like H.P Lovecraft at all, it didn’t feel even close to H.P Lovecraft. He had the potential to do so much better than this one and it blows my mind how bad this short story was. 

The plot itself was about black magic, and tell me isn’t that topic a little bit overused now on days? Because it feels like this to me. And maybe that’s this short story didn’t go so well with me.

The writing style here is in the top 5 of the worse writing styles I’ve seen so far in my reading life. Because the sentences were super long and where that happens it makes me immediately hate the book, short story or whatever else it is. I just can handle long sentences, ever time I see them I lose all the interest for that piece of work. So authors if you are reading this, please don’t do that.

The dialogs in this short story doesn’t exist, which is kind of said. But also it makes this short story feel rather like a super long essay about black magic than a short story about black magic.

I give this short story 1 / 5

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually “lost the key to the gate of dreams.” As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more “practical”, scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking “real life”. But still not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his dreams.

So again we are talking about another disappointing story written by H.P Lovecraft. Maybe I should stop reading the classic because most of them doesn’t go well with me. 

The plot wasn’t bad but I didn’t like it and I couldn’t connect with it and if you been around for a while you know that if can’t connect with the plot then the rating will be pretty low.

It was wasn’t scary, creepy or eerie at all which really disappointed me because H.P Lovecraft is pretty much known for these 3 things in the stories he writes. 

The writing style was bad, like super bad. It didn’t feel like something H.P Lovecraft would write but rather something written by a high school kid who tried to impersonate H.P Lovecraft.

I give this short story 1 / 5