Tag: H.P Lovecraft

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries –and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization–is a milestone of macabre literature.

After reading multiple short stories by H.P Lovecraft which weren’t the best I gotta admit that I hadn’t had so high expectations for this one. Which is good because if I had expectations for this one I would have been disappointed.

The overall plot in this one is very boring and not much to talk about here because it was so uninteresting. The plot was ask about a vision about the antarctic and the discoveries which were made in this short story. But come on, the world is full of this kind off stories that something is found in island where not a lot of people live or go to.

When it comes to the details in this short story then you gotta know that there were too much of them. There were too many details but very little action in this short story which really pissed me off. 

And the first 15 % of this book was just an introduction to H.P Lovecraft, and the rest of it was a short which would cure the heaviest and worst insomnia which anyone could have.

This short story wasn’t scary at all, or even a little bit creepy nor eerie which again wasn’t great because we are talking about H.P Lovecraft. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

The narrator, an unnamed surveyor from Boston, describes his attempts to uncover the secrets behind a shunned place referred to by the locals of the hills west of Arkham as the “blasted heath”. Unable to garner any information from the townspeople, the protagonist seeks out an old and allegedly crazy man by the name of Ammi Pierce, who relates his experiences with a farmer named Nahum Gardner and his family who used to live on the property.

First of all the lack of character development really pissed me off in this short story because if this short story actually had the character development aspect in it then this short story would be so much better than it actually was. 

The plot in this one was super bad, because it was super uninteresting and super boring. However there were a few moments where this short story started going a little bit up the hill but these moments didn’t last so long. To actually take it anywhere good.

The writing style was pretty decent overall, but yet again there were moments where the writing style started to dive a little bit to just come back to the “okay” level. 

I give this short story 1 / 5

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death!

I gotta be honest with you on this one, and say that I DNF-ed this one because I just couldn’t finish it because it was so uninteresting and boring. 

It didn’t feel like H.P Lovecraft at all, it didn’t feel even close to H.P Lovecraft. He had the potential to do so much better than this one and it blows my mind how bad this short story was. 

The plot itself was about black magic, and tell me isn’t that topic a little bit overused now on days? Because it feels like this to me. And maybe that’s this short story didn’t go so well with me.

The writing style here is in the top 5 of the worse writing styles I’ve seen so far in my reading life. Because the sentences were super long and where that happens it makes me immediately hate the book, short story or whatever else it is. I just can handle long sentences, ever time I see them I lose all the interest for that piece of work. So authors if you are reading this, please don’t do that.

The dialogs in this short story doesn’t exist, which is kind of said. But also it makes this short story feel rather like a super long essay about black magic than a short story about black magic.

I give this short story 1 / 5

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually “lost the key to the gate of dreams.” As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more “practical”, scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking “real life”. But still not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his dreams.

So again we are talking about another disappointing story written by H.P Lovecraft. Maybe I should stop reading the classic because most of them doesn’t go well with me. 

The plot wasn’t bad but I didn’t like it and I couldn’t connect with it and if you been around for a while you know that if can’t connect with the plot then the rating will be pretty low.

It was wasn’t scary, creepy or eerie at all which really disappointed me because H.P Lovecraft is pretty much known for these 3 things in the stories he writes. 

The writing style was bad, like super bad. It didn’t feel like something H.P Lovecraft would write but rather something written by a high school kid who tried to impersonate H.P Lovecraft.

I give this short story 1 / 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

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