The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft Randolph Carter keeps dreaming of a beautiful unknown city which he is aching to visit. After begging the gods to show him the way and receiving no answer, he sets out on a dream-quest to find it. The priests tell him that nobody knows where the city […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | H.P. Lovecraft | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft In the mood for some Eldritch horror? Feel like steeping yourself in Lovecraft’s frightening nihilistic dream worlds? Want to be read to by some of the world’s best story readers? Then give Blackstone Audio’s version of Dreams of Terror and Death: The […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | H.P. Lovecraft | Audio, Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft Fans of Stephen King take note: This work and other tales of H.P. Lovecraft were among King’s main inspirations. Lovecraft bases most of his stories out of his Providence, just as King uses small town Maine so often as a setting. Likewise, […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson´s rating: 2.5 | H.P. Lovecraft | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 9 comments |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft “In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Ask any writer of horror, fantasy, or weird fiction who their influences were and H.P. Lovecraft’s name is almost sure to come up, especially if they’re over the age of 50. For this reason alone, all true […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | H.P. Lovecraft | Horror | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft For those who just can’t get enough Lovecraft, Blackstone Audio has just released this lovely collection of a significant portion of his work. It contains 56 of his horror stories, poems, letter excerpts, and essays. Notably missing are his longer works (e.g., “At the Mountains […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | H.P. Lovecraft | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | H.P. Lovecraft | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 9 comments |
The owner, publisher and editor of Weird Tales have all changed since the last issue of the magazine, and it shows. No longer innovative, with cutting edge fiction, it is now filled with pastiches of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, a throwback to the early days of the magazine. The Hugo-Award-winning team of fiction editor […]
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The Keeper’s and Investigator’s Guides for Achtung! Cthulhu by Modiphius Games Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a character in your favorite story? I think everyone has wondered this at some point. Using the imagination to transport you to a place that doesn’t exist in the real world is one […]
Read MoreJustin Blazier´s rating: 4.5 | H.P. Lovecraft | Games | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Clan Rathskeller” by Kevin Hearne (2010, available at Kevin Hearne’s blog, audio available) “Clan Rathskeller” is one of Kevin Hearne’s short stories set in his […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Tadiana Jones | Brandon Sanderson, H.P. Lovecraft, Kevin Hearne | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. The Case of the Little Bloody Slipper by Carlie St. George (2015, free at The Book Smugglers) Jimmy Prince is a private investigator in Spindle […]
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And the Darkness Falls edited by Boris Karloff In 1943, Boris Karloff was induced by his old friend Edmund Speare, an English professor and book editor, to assist in putting together an anthology of horror stories; as Speare put it, “a collection of bogey stories selected by a professional bogey man.” The resulting volume, Tales […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin Greenberg Though hardly a runaway success in its day, and a publication that faced financial hardships for much of its existence, the pulp magazine known as Weird Tales is today remembered by fans and collectors alike as one of the most influential […]
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Weird Tales: The Magazine that Never Dies edited by Marvin Kaye Marvin Kaye’s Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies anthology from 1988 takes a slightly different tack than its earlier sister volume, Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors. Whereas the editors of that earlier collection chose to select one story from each year of the magazine’s […]
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Rivals of Weird Tales edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg From 1923 – ’54, over the course of 279 issues, the pulp publication known as Weird Tales helped to popularize macabre fantasy and outré horror fiction, ultimately becoming one of the most influential and anthologized magazines of the century, and […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Anthony Boucher, C.L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague De-Camp, Manly Wade Wellman, Norvell W. Page, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Theodore Sturgeon | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror edited by John Betancourt & Robert Weinberg This is the seventh anthology that I have reviewed that has been drawn from the pages of Weird Tales, one of the most famous pulp magazines in publishing history. Each of the previous collections had employed its own modus operandi in presenting […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Brian Lumley, C.L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Nancy Springer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, Ray Russell, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Robert Sheckley, Tanith Lee, William Hope Hodgson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer I haven’t actually read every page of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, yet I’m giving it my highest recommendation. Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Master and Mistress of Weird, The Weird is 1126 pages long […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Abraham Merritt, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Clark Ashton Smith, Clive Barker, Daniel Abraham, Elizabeth Hand, Fritz Leiber, George R.R. Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Haruki Murakami, Jeff VanderMeer, K.J. Bishop, Kelly Link, Laird Barron, Lisa Tuttle, Liz Williams, Lord Dunsany, Lucius Shepard, M. John Harrison, Margo Lanagan, Mervyn Peake, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Tanith Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness edited by Lester Smith The works of almost fifty authors are collected in this delightfully dark anthology of Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness, which includes, other than Haiku, short- to medium-length poetry and about ten short-short stories in the horror genre; however, most of these short horror works […]
Read MoreBrad Hawley´s rating: 4 | H.P. Lovecraft | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1 edited by Warren Lapine Fantasy Super Pack #1 , which is available for 99c in Kindle format, is an enormous collection of 34 stories presumably showcasing the taste of the editor of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, an online magazine. As I’m interested in submitting to the magazine, I […]
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Cthuthlu Fhtagn! edited by Ross Lockhart Usually, I shy away from reviewing books whose name I can’t pronounce. Since this title is in the language of the Elder Gods, though, it’s probably better that I can’t pronounce it. Aklo, H.P. Lovecraft’s mystical language, was never meant for human voices to speak anyway, as editor Ross […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | H.P. Lovecraft, Jesse Bullington, Laird Barron, Molly Tanzer, Richard Lee Byers | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 9 comments |
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