Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

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).