This book is perfect, if you have a lot of spare time, since it will take you months to read it all, this book is not for the faint of heart, some people might be disturbed by the subject matter of the stories.
This book, might not be for everyone however, since the author wrote these stories in the 19th century, so the language and vocabulary are unlike anything that I am used to, so I had to look up what certain words mean, because I didn't always understand what they meant, or how to pronounce them. Some of the stories in my opinion, once I read them were not very memorable, I preferred reading some of the more obvious, creepy and disturbing stories. I would recommend this to horror and sci-fi fans, although I personally didn't like all the stories, due to the attention to detail, it made reading some of the stories to read, very tiring. However if you are more of a sci-fi fan, then by all means, read the rest of the stories that I have mentioned as my least favourite above. If you are like me and would like to read the horror stories first, then I recommend that you read the stories that I listed above. In the mountains of madness, would be a good example.ĭue to the attention to detail in the sci-fi stories, I found it incredibly boring to read some of these stories, and was glad once I reached the end of the story. However, because there was so much attention to every single detail, or what an ancient long since dead creature would look like, it took me a lot longer to read some of these stories. If the stories were more about horrible things happening to the protagonist, than going into great detail about an ancient civilization that I've never heard or don't understand how to even pronoun their name, then I would have been happy to read them.
The sci-fi stories were incredibly detailed, but to the point that it distracted you with laborious details, that I was confused by. To be honest I much preferred the horror stories more than the sci-fi stories because they were to the point, and creepy. He was an intelligent, quiet, shy introvert, some people may of thought of him as a father figure or teacher. Lovecraft had strange and vivid dreams, that's where he got the inspiration for his stories, but he was possibly mentally ill. I couldn't sleep after reading some of these stories. Most of the time, I read these stories really late at night, when it was quiet. I really liked all of these stories in particular, because they were entertaining, and creepy. Through the gates of the Silver Key (With E.Hoffmann Price) I have read all the stories in the book, but i'm still reading the information about the Author, because it's really long. He is among one of the greatest writers in the 20th century, some of my other favourites are Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley. H.P Lovecraft is a horror/sci-fi writer from the 1920's.
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