Tag: 2 Star Reviews

In the story, an unnamed narrator describes his nightly obsession with the Pole star, and his recurring dreams of a city under siege. The narrator struggles with determining whether his reality is real, or if his dream is the true reality. Critics have noted autobiographical elements in the story, and have connected it with Lovecraft’s experiences of uselessness during WW1

The atmosphere here in this one wasn’t great for me because I didn’t quit get it and it felt strange. 

The write style in this one was pretty strange and it didn’t feel quit as H.P Lovecraft. And it also felt like it was written by someone who have never written anything before. It could be just be me who is being to harsh for everything I read. 

The plot here is pretty basic and not to much to talk about here because there isn’t much which is happening here. 

The characters here are also not much to talk about here, because they are super flat and they feels like there is nothing to tell them apart here. 

I give this short story 2 / 5

So this is another short story by H.P Lovecraft which really disappointed me. But it surprised me that not a lot of people are talking about this short story it seems like  everyone about forgotten about this one. But lets into the review shall we?

The plot itself in this short story feels like it was written by a high school student in the gothic era. It was bad but it had the gothic vibe to it which I really loved but as a whole I just can’t give it a full score. 

The writing style here was poor, and there isn’t much to talk about here as you may expect. 

The characters here are also very poor, and I count connect with them at all. Is you might expect the rating to be low.

I give this short story 2 / 5

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

And yet again we are talking about a 2 star short story from H.P Lovecraft. 

The plot in this short story is bad, super bad however it had some good moments which I found myself enjoying but these moments were rare in this short story and it is sad. The plot in this short story had the potential to be much better than it acutely was but its too late to change it now.

The writing style in this one was bad, like super bad. And it was the worst part of this short story. The writing style didn’t feel like something written by the goat himself.

The first 5-10 pages of this short story were pointless for the rest of the short story so I don’t understand the point of these first pages because they only take extra space and extra time to read and they don’t do anything. 

For the most part this short story was very drown out with some few parts in it.  And this short story was the sign that some show stories doesn’t age well because what people like and don’t like change with time. 

I give this short story 2 / 5

So this is another short story from H.P Lovecraft which involves multiple different short stories in it. 

To be honest here none of them were specially good. All of them were good enough to relieve 2 stars as a whole but they wouldn’t get that if they were standing alone let me say that.

The writing style here was pretty decent and I think that the writing style was the best part of this whole short stories collection. 

The plot wasn’t good enough in any of these 4 stories which this short story involve. I had hard time trying to focus on them and they didn’t get my attention because I didn’t like them so much as I wished too. 

All of the 4 short stories were boring and uninteresting, and that’s why it didn’t get my attention. There were too many words in this one and too little action which really didn’t go well with me 

I give this short story 2 / 5

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

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