Tag: 2 Star Reviews

The story begins with a narrator explaining that he is on his deathbed and feels the need to share a particular story before he dies. He tells of a quiet and slightly mad older man who lives in the Gray’s Inn with his pet cat. The mad is haggard and haunted, looking older than his years and terrified of church bells. A young man named Williams (the narrator) moves into to the Inn and tries to befriend the old man and get him to share his knowledge. It is revealed that the man is Lord Northam of England. 

So this was another pretty average short story from H.P Lovecraft. I had high expectations for this short story but it did disappoint me a little bit.

This short story also felt like it wasn’t complete and that the some parts of the short story are missing. 

The writing style was pretty okay and it probably the writing style it was the best part of this short story. 

The plot was okay but it had potential to be better. It somehow felt poor and that something was off with it. It would be much better if this short story was a novel instead of a short story. 

Some parts of this short story had some creepy parts in it, which this short story needs to get points for. 

I was missing from this short story more details and descriptions. This short story would be so much better of it had more details and descriptions. 

I give this short story 2 / 5

So another disappointing short story by H.P Lovecraft. Which really makes me sad because I want to like all of H.P Lovecraft’s works but as you may see this website it doesn’t work. 

The writing style in this one I gotta say is probably the most enjoyable part in this short story. The writing style here is sort of a mythic/fantasy style which I really enjoyed.

I gotta give this short story extra points for being connected with Dream Cycle, which is something I truly enjoy when it comes to H.P Lovecraft.

The plot itself here wasn’t really much to talk about here. Because it wasn’t entertaining, it wasn’t enjoyable. It was just bad.

The characters here again are bad, and I again couldn’t connect with them. So the rating is low as you may expect here. 

I give this short story 2 / 5

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it.

The plot itself had actually surprised me on how goof it actually have been. Because I’ve read some shirt stories by H.P Lovecraft before reading this one and I gotta say that they did disappoint me very much when it came to the plot but this one didn’t because it was so good. 

The plot takes the turn to the classical Greek setting. I’m a huge fan of mythologies and as we all know the greek mythology is probably one of the biggest and richest mythologies which exists. 

The writing style here was bad, I felt like the short story was written by someone who have never written a short story before.  But this can be explained by the fact that short story is sort of a step outside of comfort zone for H.P Lovecraft. Because this one is a little but different than most of his other works. 

The action itself in this short story doesn’t exist because there aren’t much happening in this short story. Which really disappointed me here.

When it comes to the characters in this short story I gotta say that here again they were very poor and I couldn’t connect with them. Which really ruined the short story for me.

I give this short story 2 / 5

Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world. Finally knights guide him through medieval England to his ancestral estate, where he spent his boyhood, and then to Celephaïs. 

The writing style in this short story is very poor, which really pissed me off because I had really high expectations for this short story since there were a lots of people who were recommending this short story to me. 

The characters here are again very poor. Poor in the meaning of as developed in the short story, the character to them and everything else which makes a character in a book / short story / movie / series / game. 

The plot here in this short story is pretty poor, and some parts here were like super boring and I was questioning why I’m reading this short story when these parts came. And the plot didn’t really get my full attention and this usually happens when the story is really bad.

However this short story is a typical H.P Lovecraft short story, but if you read some thing written by H.P Lovecraft before reading this one you will be disappointed a little bit because it is so bad.

I give this short story 2 / 5

The unnamed narrator of the story goes into the middle of the Arabian Peninsula to seek out and enter a lost city. After hearing a clanging seemingly coming from deep inside the earth, the narrator inspects mysterious carvings and ruins until nightfall. The next day, the narrator discovers a cliff riddled with low-ceilinged buildings, unfit for human use.

The writing style was pretty okay, but there were parts of it which really were poor. And these parts really ruined more the short story. 

The plot itself wasn’t great. It was okay at its best. However I liked the fact that this short story was set in the Cthulhu Mythos world. 

And this short story wasn’t another short story which was based on one of H.P Lovecraft’s dream. 

I also need to give this short story couple of points for sometimes having a creepy vibe in it.

However the characters in this short story, I had really hard time connecting with them. And as some of you might know that if I can’t connect with the characters in a book or the plot itself then the results in a very low rating.

I give this short story 2 / 5

So I’ve heard a lots of good things about this one but unfortunately it didn’t live up to the expectations I had for this short story. 

The characters in this one are oh boy, not great to say at least. And it was impossible for me to connect with them which leads to a low rating. 

The plot itself here was pretty good because it talks about loneliness which pretty much everyone can relate to at some level. This short story also talks about the ab-human aspect of the life. In this shirt story the Ab-human refers to to a “Gothic body” or something that is only vestigially human and possibly in the process of becoming something bad and dangerous like a boogeyman, werewolf, vampire or zombie. These two things in my opinion adds a lot to the story and makes it to one of the more unique H.P Lovecraft’s work even though it isn’t the best. 

The writing style here is pretty good, however there are a lots of moments in this short story where the writing style takes a dive and runs down the hill. Which is sad because it would be a 3 star rating if there were fewer of these moments. 

I give this short story 2 / 5

And once again we are talking about a disappointing short story from H.P Lovecraft. And this time as well it is a short story which not a lot of people are talking about. 

The writing style here again was pretty poor and far from great. But it did had some good moments here and there which I need to appreciate. 

The plot itself was pretty okay but it had the potential to be better than it actually was. But this is one of these things which are too late to change now I guess. 

The characters here are also very hard to connect with here which really pissed me off because I want to finally read a good short story from H.P Lovecraft.

I give this short story 2 / 5

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