Category: Other Reviews

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.

So this short story was kind of okay, I didn’t have any expectations for this since the past couple of short stories by H.P Lovecraft was a disappointing. 

The plot itself was okay for the most part but there were a lots of moments where the story went down the hill. There were a lots of moments where this short story was super boring and I didn’t care for this short story. But I gotta say that this short story had the potential to be better than it actually was. 

When it comes to the horror part of this short story then it didn’t exist because it wasn’t scary at all. It might be scary for a kindergarten kid who never read any horror stories before. 

This short story had a little twist in it but it didn’t work for me at least, which is kind of a disappointment.  

I give this short story 2 / 5

Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspirations of those who dwelt so squalidly here. In the cellar, however, the strangest thing was found–a pile of genuine gold ingots covered carelessly with a piece of burlap, and bearing upon their shining surfaces the same weird hieroglyphics which also adorned the walls.

You know what maybe classics aren’t for me. Because the more of them I read the more of them turns out to be disappointing, this is the case at least when it comes to H.P Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. But today we are gathering here to talk about H.P Lovecraft and not about Edgar Allan Poe.

I need to give the plot a few points for being sort of eerie and sinister but com on it wasn’t something you would expect from H.P Lovecraft. I was expecting more horror from it. 

And I gotta be honest here this short story involves all these parts which little Donald J Trump would appreciate which of course are tribal magic, throwing immigrants and New York architecture. But gotta be honest here if I had voting right in the USA I would vote for Donald Trump back in 2016 and 2020. But lets not get into politics because this website is neutral.

This short story was very weak, and it didn’t feel like something written by H.P Lovecraft. And when it comes to the scariness part of this short story than it is important to mention that it doesn’t exist because this short story isn’t scary at all. 

The writing style here was very poor and very uninteresting. In a way it made the short story even worse than it actually was without the help. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

The man brings the narrator into his home. There, he tells him the story of a squire who bargained with Native Americans for the secrets of their rituals concerning time and space, which were practiced on the land where the squire had recently taken up residence. After learning these secrets, the squire killed the Native Americans by giving them “monstrous bad rum”. 

Yet again we are here to talk about another disappointing short story by the goat himself. I really have started to wonder if reading classics is for me because most of them are kind of disappointing for me.

However I need to give points to the plot for being a little bit bizarre and disturbing. But it wasn’t something which really got my attention because my attention was running away from the short story and I had hard time trying to focus on it as I’ve read it.

The writing style was okay for the most part. But there were moments where the writing style ran down the hill. 

This short story for me was very uninteresting because I feel like I’ve read and watched similar stories which really took the wind out of it for me. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

After being kidnapped by a local tour guide who bears a striking resemblance to an ancient pharaoh, Harold Houdini is thrown in a deep pit next to the Great Sphinx. Whilst trying to break free, he happens across a large cave where he encounters the ancient god and inspiration for the Sphinx.

So another short story from H.P Lovecraft which didn’t go well with me. However this one is very special because it was written by very big names which are H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini. And if you know me, then you know that I’m a huge Harry Houdini fan and I would love to see he do some of his bull shit in person if I could go back in time. If we had time machines I would give all my money to just go back in time and see Harry Houdini do his bull shit.

But I gotta be honest with you here and say that this short story was boring and very uninterested. And I often found myself skimming through this story because I just couldn’t focus at the plot or anything in this short story.

The description which H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini provide us are the second best thing in this short story. The description really gives you the chills which I personally am a huge fan of.

However this short story involves too much descriptions which does not quite captivate me.

The writing style in the one was probably the worst I’ve seen H.P Lovecraft do in his short stories. It really surprised me how bad they it was.

I give this short story 1 / 5

In my childhood the shunned house was vacant, with barren, gnarled and terrible old trees, long, queerly pale grass and nightmarishly misshapen weeds in the high terraced yard where birds never lingered. We boys used to overrun the place, and I can still recall my youthful terror not only at the morbid strangeness of this sinister vegetation, but at the eldritch atmosphere and odor of the dilapidated house, whose unlocked front door was often entered in quest of shudders.

So another disappointing short story from the goat himself. Sometimes I think that reading classics is not for me because most of the time they disappoint me. Which is sad because I want to enjoy them.

The writing style here was probably the best part in this entire short story, but still it wasn’t the best as you might expect from H.P Lovecraft. After reading this several of H.P Lovecraft’s works I know that he was able to do much better than he did on this one.

The plot itself here wasn’t the best. The plot is the most generic plot about an abandoned house which you can imagine. I know that now on days there are too many horror stories about abandoned house and they are the reason why I didn’t enjoy this short story as much as I wanted to. 

This short story is about 48 pages long, but these 48 pages felt more like 480 pages. Because this short story is so boring and uninteresting. It was so boring that I needed completely focus on it because my attention was running away from the plot any chance it got. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

So another disappointing short story form H.P Lovecraft which truly didn’t work with me. 

The plot itself here was super boring and very uninteresting. However i liked the idea that supposed to me a parody of romantic melodrama. And the plot really felt like something meant for a child and nothing like H.P Lovecraft would write. 

The writing style itself wasn’t great, it really didn’t feel like something written by H.P Lovecraft. It rather felt like something written by someone who was trying to impersonate as H.P Lovecraft. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story is the first to mention Lovecraft’s fictional Miskatonic University.

So this little short story if you will call it that has in it 6 different short stories which really makes this little short story as a whole unique. 

However the stories which this short story as a whole involves are boring, and I had super hard time trying to connect with them. And as you might know, if I can’t connect with a story then the rating will be low. 

This short story was first mentioned at Lovecraft’s fictional Miskatonic University. And when we are the topic of this i gotta also mention that this one is very notable as one of the first depictions of zombies. Zombies as we know them somehow today which can be described as corpses arising, of course through scientific means. And as animalistic, and uncontrollably violent creatures.

The beginning of this short story was pretty decent but as you were living the beginning behind and reading more of this short story then the whole short story started to run down the hill.

The plot itself in this one is kind of hard to review because this one as I’ve said before involves 6 different short stories. But overall all these 6 different short stories was pretty boring and not really interesting. 

The writing style here in this one probably was the best part about this whole collection of 6 different short stories. I felt like H.P Lovecraft and it had the Lovecraftian vibe to it.

I give this short story 1 / 5

Carter, a weird fiction writer, who is likely Randolph Carter who features in some of Lovecraft’s other tales such as “The Statement of Randolph Carter”, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area.

And here again we are talking about another disappointing short story by H.P Lovecraft. 

You gotta know that I’m huge fan of H.P Lovecraft but this one didn’t go well with me. This one was really silly, stupid and it felt like it was written by a junior high student not by the goat himself aka H.P Lovecraft.

The writing style here wasn’t great either so don’t expect much from this short story. Because it isn’t good. 

The entire short story begins with 2 characters in a deep conversation about how something could be unnamable. Which wasn’t so good at least not for me. But here again we are coming back to me being harsh on things I read now on days. 

The whole plot of this short story wasn’t something unique or even good enough to talk about it a lot. 

This short story is the second appearance of Randolph Carter which means that it is a follow-up to the amazing and great “Statement of Randolph Carter”. But this short story is bad, like really bad. It is completely horrible.

I give this short story 1 / 5

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade–all the while indoctrinated him into dark rituals and witchcraft by his grandfather. 

So another disappointing short story from H.P Lovecraft. I wasn’t expecting a 5 star short story from this one but I’ve expected a 3 star short story. Ive heard a lot of mixed opinions about this short story but from what I’ve heard it sounded like a short story which I would enjoy. 

The writing style here was pretty decent but I was expecting much more from it because H.P Lovecraft have written it. The writing style had the H.P Lovecraft vibe to it however it felt more like a H.P Lovecraft at the beginning of this career rather than the H.P Lovecraft we all know now. 

The plot itself in this short story was the overall common plot in the H.P Lovecraft short stories world. The unknown and the strange events and what else do there is to say when it comes to H.P Lovecraft. However the plot itself was super boring because hit was presented to us in a very boring way. And I’ve ended up DNF-ing it at the end because I couldn’t stand it. 

When it comes to the horror part of this short story then its important to mention that it wasn’t scary at all. It was more like a fiction story and nothing more than that,

I give this short story 1 / 5

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.

This one was disappointing because there are a lot of people on the interment who are saying that this short story is amazing but it isn’t. This short story is on the opposite of amazing. 

The writing style here is very boring, it truly doesn’t feel like something written by H.P Lovecraft. Which is sad because if a short story is written by H.P Lovecraft but it doesn’t feel like H.P Lovecraft then it takes the wind out of it.

The plot in this one is about a street in somewhere in New Hampshire, Massachusetts,  Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont or Maine which of course is the New England area. And if you know me then you know that I’m a huge fan of New England Patriots so when I’ve learned that this short story takes place in New England then the expectations for it went through the roof for me but it didn’t live up to these expectations. 

This short story didn’t live up to expectations just as New England Patriots this season (2021-22) which I personally hate to see. 

The way which this short story was told through was embarrassing and mixed with ridiculous.

This short story isn’t really horror story, it is actually far from it. This short story felt kind of random to me and I had a really hard time connecting with this story which again results in low rating. 

I give this short story 1 / 5