Tag: H.P Lovecraft

A man touring Mammoth Cave separates from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark, when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him.

So, another boring short story from HP Lovecraft so fucking sad to see this happening. And that things which I’m talking about is that I don’t find myself enjoy most of his short stories. I’ve noticed that late last year I became very picky and it still is around.

However, its quite enjoyable and you will have fun time reading this one but nothing more than this. That’s at least how I felt about this short story.

The writing style here was pretty decent but again it could have been better than it actually was.

The scary part wasn’t existing in this short story for me which is really sad if you ask me. Because I want to feel scared and I want to enjoy his work more than I actually do.

I give this short story 1 / 5

In this little snippet of a story, a man finds a little glass bottle floating in the ocean containing a treasure map.

So this little short story is another attempt from HP Lovecraft to be funny and honours. 

To me this short story felt a little but silly and it felt to me like a young HP Lovecraft wrote this story. Like the one HP Lovecraft who was just getting into writing. 

I had hard time connecting with the main plot which this short story has. Which lead me to giving his short story a low rating.

The main plot wasn’t good. I always like to say that not good story had a potential to be better but this in this one I didn’t see any potential to becoming better than it actually was. 

I give this story 1 / 5

And today we take. Look at one of HP Lovecraft’s poem. 

Gotta say that the entire plot to this poem wasn’t the best I’ve seen in a poem. Of course it had a huge potential to be better but as you see it wasn’t.

The writing style, it was okay for the most part. So i’ll pass that. 

I need to give this poem points for giving us a nice little nocturnal trek vibe which I personally loved.

I give this story 1 / 5

Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the “gods of earth”, or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple Atal. Upon reaching the peak, Barzai at first seems overjoyed until he finds that the “gods of the earth” are not there alone.

Let me be honest with you and say that the plot was boring. I had high expectations for it but it didn’t live up to them.

This one also felt to me like a follow-up story to “The Cats of Ulthar”, which I wasn’t a big fan of either. 

The writing style isn’t bad, but it could have been better. The HP Lovecraft was missing from the writing style. Which really killed the story to me. The writing style is also difficult to read in this one.

The characters here are very flat. And that’s the thing which annoys me the most. As long as a story have good characters or character ill very probably give the story a good rating.

I give this story 1 / 5

The story begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator’s companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably violent end that befell him. He advises the narrator not to stay after dark or touch anything.

The narration style to this story was pretty good but the entire plot wasn’t. I had high hopes for this one but it didn’t live up to these hopes.

The writing style was pretty okay but it could have been much better than it actually was.

And to be fully honest with you here I didn’t care for it, nor the characters which are in this short story.

The characters here and the narrator in this short story are just so flat that it becomes insurable.

This short story wasn’t even a little bit scary which is sad because HP Lovecraft wrote this one. And he is considered to be one of the few horror masters.

I give this short story 1 / 5

In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.

And today as well were are talking about HP Lovecraft and one of his short stories and this time it is a story named The Book.

The writing style was pretty okay, it wasn’t super bad nor was it good. 

Overall the short story felt to me like it was unfinished or like the ending was missing from the version I was reading. 

I also had a feeling that this short story was rather an attempt at a short story than it actually being a short story.

I give this story 1 / 5

In the story, the unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.

The main plot of this story was pretty good but it could have been better in couple of ways and I also didn’t vibe with it. So I just couldn’t give this short story a good rating. 

The writing style was pretty good, to be honest it was better than the writing style than in the previous HP Lovecraft short story we talked about which was “The Quest of Iranon”.

To me stil story felt like something written by M.R. James, which really speaks for itself.

I also need to mention that this short isn’t so memorable which to me means that if you can remember it a year after you read it, then the story wasn’t good enough.

I give this story 1 / 5

So another not every good short story written by HP Lovecraft. 

Here again I was very disappointed in this short story. When I read reviews on goodreads about this one it really seemed like a good short story but oh boy.

The writing style was pretty okay. It wasn’t bad nor good. It could be better.

The plot here was also pretty okay, but it could be much better. I feel like I say this a lot in the reviews. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

And today again we are talking about HP Lovecraft and one of his short stories. 

Before we start this review let me just quickly mention that are couple of comments on goodreads that this short story is racist. But no that’s not true.

The writing style here was pretty decent but it could have been better, and HP Lovecraft was fully able to do better.

The plot, was pretty okay but I personally felt like there was something missing in it. But I just can’t tell what. But for the most part the premise of this story was well done, and the mystery in this story was pretty okay overall. 

This story involves probably the worst way to die which of course is dead by burning alive. Which really gave me chills while reading it.

I give this short story 1 / 5

The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wonder, few appreciate it. When a disenfranchised boy named Romnod suggests leaving Teloth to go to the famed city of Oonai, Iranon takes him up on his offer.

You can say that this short story is an early version of modern day fantasy which was written in the Edward Plunkett style.

The thing which made HP Lovecraft popular in the first place, you won’t find it in this short story. This story isn’t bad nor is it good. After all this story gives us some good imitation but the characteristic horror to HP Lovecraft is gone here. 

The ending was sad but it also was an ending which we deserved. Which I love when something like this happens. The ending doesn’t need to have a “happy ending” as long as the author gives us the ending which we deserved.

The writing style for the most part was okay but of course it could have been much better than it actually was. 

I give this story 1 / 5