The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror
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"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1590170261
ISBN13:9781590170267
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:New York Review of Books
Length:354 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 8.1"
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A superb collection with only a few missteps
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book isn't "by" H. P. Lovecraft: rather it's a collection of stories of what he would call "cosmic horror" assembled by D. Thin based largely on Lovecraft's personal favorites in the horror fiction genre and including what Lovecraft considered his very best short story, "The Colour Out of Space" (which must have been inspired by accounts of radium poisoning at the time). The choices are fine, and several famous and forgotten horror classics, such as Arthur Machen's wonderfully disorienting "The White People," which seems to anticipate the fiction of Angela Carter, and Algernon Blackwood's splendidly eerie "The Willows," which must have been an inspiration behind THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, are included. There are a few missteps in inclusion, such as Bram Stoker's piece of Grand Guignol "The Squaw"--which, though quite gruesome, seems to have nothing to do with the collection's theme--and also displays his irritating fascination with American Western accents which he poorly imitates, as he also does in DRACULA. And where are the illustrations to the stories advertised?
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