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While reading Lord Dunsany’s “The Probable Adventure of Three Literary Men,” H.P. Lovecraft became haunted by one Dunsany phrase: “the unreverberate blackness of the abyss.” The ghost of that phrase inspired a dream, and later, when H.P. awakened, he found he possessed the idea for a story. That sto Leggi tutto

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This short story can be read for free online on the H.P. Lovecraft website. I'm not going to lie, for years, I was intimidated by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, the cosmic mythological concepts of his worlds and the stunning, yet frightening artwork that has originated from Lovecraft's words. I shou Leggi tutto

First off, it's a short story. I started reading this story this morning, kind of vaguely thinking I had probably already read it. (It was rainy, dark. Lovecraft seemed appropriate.) I was probably recalling Lovecraft's "Under the Pyramids." Anyway, "The Nameless City" is the first story in a massiv Leggi tutto

Another pretty awesome Lovecraft story, although it is noticeably early in the author's sequence of stories and development of his mythos. The Nameless City gives off a rudimentary, under-developed feeling to it, but that in a way only makes it more exciting as a glimpse into the early stages of Lov Leggi tutto

My very first Lovecraft. It was written supremely well, if inundated with many long, fantastical words that may or may not have been needed. Can't say I was scared or horrified or even that moved by it, but it was definitely intriguing. A lone narrator wanders the desert and finds himself in a lost-an Leggi tutto