Tag: H.P Lovecraft

A man, newly arrived in New York, learns that a reclusive doctor lives in the apartment above his own. While suffering a heart attack, he is taken to the doctor’s door, and soon becomes friends with the bizarre and isolated man who claims he must live in a refrigerated environment for his health. But as the man spends more time with the doctor, he begins to understand the horrifying truth about his friend’s strange medical condition.

Another decent short story from H.P Lovecraft now that’s what I’ve been expecting from the man himself. It wasn’t the best as you might expect from the man, but it is still interesting, enjoyable and fun to read. 

It wasn’t that scary as you might expect, but it had some creepy parts as well as it had moments which will send chills down your spine. 

The plot is overall okay, but nothing much to brag about or talk about because it doesn’t have so much into it as you might have thought. 

The writing style was okay for the most part but it had a lots of moneys when it had run down the hill to stay there for a while which sort of pissed me out.

I give this short story 3 / 5

Thomas Olney, a “philosopher” visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited. With great difficulty, Olney climbs the crag, approaches the house, and meets the mysterious man who lives there.

Finally a pretty decent short story from none other than H.P Lovecraft. Ive been waiting for a long time to read something like this after reading so many bad short stories from the man himself.

However this short story wasn’t scary as much as you might think or expect from it. But for sure it is eerie and has some very good moments which will send chills down your spin but nothing more than this.

The plot itself is fine, but it could have been better because it had the potential to be better than it actually was. The plot has for sure a creepy setting to it which I was a fan of, but it felt like something was missing in it. Which I can really put word to it because I don’t really know what was missing there but something was for sure.

But the plot had some weak parts at least for me and at times it was kind of boring which really sucked because it could have been avoided if H.P Lovecraft decided to skip couple of things here and there in this story.

The writing style was beautiful in this one but there were couple of moments where it sort of ran down the hill for a whole before returning to the beautiful level.

I give this short story 3 / 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

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