Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

This is one of the books I'd rather not rate. Definitely a defining piece in its genre and an origin (together with other books by H.P. Lovecraft) of a new mythos. Most of the stories are written as a memoir or letters rarely including dialogues and such. Even though I understand the usage of such technique in this context it sometimes left me slightly unsatisfied. IMHO the best part of the stories is how the author creates the atmosphere of unknown, lurking evil and a ‘conspiracy theory', etc. My biggest issue lies also within the same spectrum. It just seems like almost all of these stories are a sort of result of social or mental issues of the depicted characters. Glowing lights are some misinterpreted reflections, so-called demons are deformed people suffering from diseases, seeing or hearing weird noises are a result of sleep deprivation and a constant believe in being followed by ‘the others'. How to interpret these things always lies on the side of the reader, so what we take from it and how interpret is our own thing, so that is not really a flaw. I did enjoy reading it a lot and would recommend to anyone who either enjoys the cthulhu mythos or just likes horror stories, especially those placed in the beginning of XX century.