![]() ![]() Lovecraft’s Lord Dunsay-inspired stories certainly try their hand at vibrant world-building-they are, however, dreadfully dull. Written like the lore in a Bethesda RPG that nobody ever bothers to read. Again, striking images made as boring as possible by lack of character, theme or plot. Sort of works as a prelude to “Unknown Kadath”. This is more of the same.ĭream Cycle story describing a city. ![]() The sequel to “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”, which as just mentioned I place among some of the most unreadable of Lovecraft’s fiction. Striking images and creative ideas, but Lovecraft does exactly nothing with any of it. Lots of fanciful action without anything actually happening. I really, really dislike the Dream Cycle, and this story has all its worst qualities. Excluded are poems, juvenilia, nonfiction, essays, incomplete and lost works.Ĭreative but unreadable. Ranked here are his novellas and short stories. This will also help newbies curious about the guy’s fiction weed out the less important pieces of his bibliography, figure out what’s actually useful to read. Now that I have just finally finished his collected works, I thought it might be useful to rank his fiction, see what’s good about him and what’s bad. His work has had an impact on my appreciation of weird fiction and horror, as well as kickstarted an entire subgenre of horror dubbed Lovecraftian. I don’t admire Lovecraft as a writer and I don’t admire him as a person, but I have been reading him fairly consistently since middle school. ![]()
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