Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
–H. P. LOVECRAFT
Welcome to the world of H. P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of terror. His work has inspired countless nightmares, and this collection of some of his most chilling stories is likely to inspire even more.
Cool Air –An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward –Ward delves into the black arts and resurrects the darkest evil from beyond the grave.
The Terrible Old Man –The intruders seek a fortune but find only death.
Herbert West–Reanimator –Mad experiments yield hideous results in this bloodcurdling tale, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator .
The Shadow Over Innsmouth –A small fishing town’s population is obscenely corrupted by a race of fiendish undersea creatures.
The Lurking Fear –An upstate New York clan degenerates into thunder-crazed mole like creatures with a taste for human flesh.
PLUS TEN OTHER SPINE-TINGLING TALES
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gems of literary mastercraft, they still are, and pure joy to read as poetry of the words.
scary, though? Not at all, the 1920's terrors are ridiculous and not horrifying at all to the modern reader.
Also, the excessive use of “indescribable, unnameable, words cannot describe, unspeakable” and so on is annoying and boring; it was probably necessary to not outrage the prudish readers of its age, but today it feels like the author was too lazy to imagine the monsters himself, leaving that to the reader.
Mediocre. Maybe they are not his best, or maybe simply the real world got too dark to be impressed by Lovecraft's. I actually enjoyed Poppy Z Brite way more (she's a modern Lovecraftian).
