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October 2024: The Strange High House in the Mist
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This is an early Lovecraft short story about a pair of grave robbers who come to regret their theft, not as an act of conscience, but as a result of consequence. I have a hard time generating much sympathy for a pair of grave robbers.
Lovecraft's imagery, pacing, and word choices as always are on full impressive display in this story. However, much of the events transpire offstage, robbing the story of considerable potential dramatic effect. At so few pages, reading it is not a waste of time. But ...more
Lovecraft's imagery, pacing, and word choices as always are on full impressive display in this story. However, much of the events transpire offstage, robbing the story of considerable potential dramatic effect. At so few pages, reading it is not a waste of time. But ...more
First mention of Necronomicon and (the plateau of) Leng in Weird Tales: "Alien it indeed was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but we recognized it as the thing hinted of in the forbidden Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in Central Asia. All too well did we trace the sinister lineaments described by the o ...more
May 10, 2020
Jasmine
marked it as to-read
