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Editorial Reviews
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft's best works central to his 'Cthulhu mythos.' Although Lovecraft's (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.
This book is DRM free and includes at active table of contents for easy navigation.
Contents:
The Nameless City
The Festival
The Colour out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
Dreams in the Witch-house
The Haunter of the Dark
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow out of Time
At the Mountain of Madness
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Azathoth
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Celephais
Cool Air
Dagon
Dream House
Ex Oblivione
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
From Beyond
He
Herbert West: Reanimator
Hypnos
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
In the Vault
Medusa's Coil
Memory
Nyarlathotep
Pickman's Model
Poetry of the Gods
The Alchemist
The Beast in the Cave
The Book
The Cats of Ulthar
The Crawling Chaos
The Descendant
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Evil Clergyman
The Horror at Martin's Beach
The Horror at Red Hook
The Hound
The Lurking Fear
The Moon Bog
The Music of Erich Zann
The Other Gods
The Outsider
The Picture in the House
The Quest of Iranon
The Rats in the Walls
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Street
The Temple
The Terrible Old Man
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Tomb
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Tree
The Unnamable
The White Ship
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
What the Moon Brings
Polaris
The Very Old Folk
Darkness
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
This book is DRM free and includes at active table of contents for easy navigation.
Contents:
The Nameless City
The Festival
The Colour out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
Dreams in the Witch-house
The Haunter of the Dark
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow out of Time
At the Mountain of Madness
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Azathoth
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Celephais
Cool Air
Dagon
Dream House
Ex Oblivione
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
From Beyond
He
Herbert West: Reanimator
Hypnos
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
In the Vault
Medusa's Coil
Memory
Nyarlathotep
Pickman's Model
Poetry of the Gods
The Alchemist
The Beast in the Cave
The Book
The Cats of Ulthar
The Crawling Chaos
The Descendant
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Evil Clergyman
The Horror at Martin's Beach
The Horror at Red Hook
The Hound
The Lurking Fear
The Moon Bog
The Music of Erich Zann
The Other Gods
The Outsider
The Picture in the House
The Quest of Iranon
The Rats in the Walls
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Street
The Temple
The Terrible Old Man
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Tomb
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Tree
The Unnamable
The White Ship
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
What the Moon Brings
Polaris
The Very Old Folk
Darkness
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
Related Reviews
Still Scary After All These Years
This is precisely what you are looking for. All of Lovecraft's stories consolidated into a single book for an excellent price. This IS the Mythos. There are no stories by those following HPL. There are no critiques, no rebuttals, and no dilutions.
This is the Mythos. Pure.
This is the Mythos. Pure.
Great - Lots of Gods, Hate to be Bias and Just Shout Cthulhu - is Waiting!
Talk about a collection - when i saw the size of this beast i wondered if I had seen a glitch, if my eyes were giving out after all the horror I had read, or if Kindle was giving me yet another taste of the good life. I had already collected Dracula and a few others for next to nothing, and this seemed like I was doing the same. So i clicked, checked, and was a happy camper.
While you have a lot of small things here, the 67 alone is enough to send a reader into some mind-altered vortex that says, "Danger, Will Robinson." That danger was not danger at all, however, but was something that was good to the last drippy drop. you really can't beat the size of the beast you get here and, honestly, you can't keep from admiring just how lovely this thing is. It is horror at its finest and it is beautiful in the way you find it coming up and devouring your Kindle.
Maybe that's what was meant by waking the sleeping Cthulhu. He's a Kindle man and he's been waiting for someone to download this sea of sexy stories and find him there, waiting.
All joking aside, though, get this!
While you have a lot of small things here, the 67 alone is enough to send a reader into some mind-altered vortex that says, "Danger, Will Robinson." That danger was not danger at all, however, but was something that was good to the last drippy drop. you really can't beat the size of the beast you get here and, honestly, you can't keep from admiring just how lovely this thing is. It is horror at its finest and it is beautiful in the way you find it coming up and devouring your Kindle.
Maybe that's what was meant by waking the sleeping Cthulhu. He's a Kindle man and he's been waiting for someone to download this sea of sexy stories and find him there, waiting.
All joking aside, though, get this!
I'll just add a third voice saying that this is a fantastic collection of one of the best gothic horror authors, well presented by the publisher.
I was familiar with the Lovecraft from the Call of Cthulhu RPG, but had never actually read any of the stories.
Purchase of my Kindle led me to pick this up. What a great deal for $2!
The writing is amazing. The ideas that Lovecraft either came up with or built upon are wonderful. His Mythos is complicated and engaging.
Lovecraft does a good job of referencing some earlier stories. It's nice to hear about the Innsmouth Curse, for example, in multiple stories. Though, you might get sick of hearing of the Mad Arab who wrote the Necronomican. Seriously, was Mad part of his name?
This collection, in my opinion, is front-loaded with the best stuff. My favorites being The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow over Innsmouth. Though, the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is really good also.
Now, be warned, this was written in a time when different language was acceptable. Some of what he says is quite offensive, but, I hope readers can get past that to the true quality that is there.
Easy 5 stars.
Edit - I see that a rival publisher doesn't like this review, as all of the reviews here were down-voted after I pointed out this was the better version. Tough. This is the Lovecraft version to get.
Purchase of my Kindle led me to pick this up. What a great deal for $2!
The writing is amazing. The ideas that Lovecraft either came up with or built upon are wonderful. His Mythos is complicated and engaging.
Lovecraft does a good job of referencing some earlier stories. It's nice to hear about the Innsmouth Curse, for example, in multiple stories. Though, you might get sick of hearing of the Mad Arab who wrote the Necronomican. Seriously, was Mad part of his name?
This collection, in my opinion, is front-loaded with the best stuff. My favorites being The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow over Innsmouth. Though, the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is really good also.
Now, be warned, this was written in a time when different language was acceptable. Some of what he says is quite offensive, but, I hope readers can get past that to the true quality that is there.
Easy 5 stars.
Edit - I see that a rival publisher doesn't like this review, as all of the reviews here were down-voted after I pointed out this was the better version. Tough. This is the Lovecraft version to get.
Some of the best horror and fantasy of the 20th century
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is the epitome of an "acquired taste." His prose is dense to point of being crunchy, his pacing is all over the place, his characterizations pedantic (there are few women, and most of the protagonists are quite similar to the author), and some actions and plot points fail the "dumb test." In other words, if people in a horror movie did the things they do here, you'd be yelling at the screen. And yet, once you forgive the author these flaws, you'll find yourself in the grip of some of the best cosmic horror and dark fantasy stories ever told. Lovecraft introduces concepts that are baffling in their intellectual magnitude, from the ideas of extra-terrestrials as eternal primeval forces, humanity as an error caused by failed experiments in the creation of higher lifeforms, a sympathetic vegetable race capable of supreme art and sentience, and much more. The horror here is not of the "boo" variety, it is existential. Stories range from the gothic parable (The Outsider), to science fiction (The Colour Out of Space), to rural dystopia (The Dunwich Horror), to the simply non-classifiable (The Shadow Out of Time). Some of the stories here, while fantastic, are so "out there" for the first-time reader that I fear the compounded effect of all of them would be hard to process without some serious effort. But still, these stories are unforgettable, disturbing, provokingly intelligent and even beautiful. There's a lot to enjoy here, and the only thing I can add to the new fans of Lovecraft is this: I envy you.
Ever wondered who coined the words 'Necronomicon', 'Arkham', 'Space time continuum'? None other than one of the masters if not THE MASTER of the horror and macabre genre H.P Lovecraft. Included in this collection is the best Sci-Fi Horror "The Color out of Space", and other great works of the weird and the macabre, like "The Dunwich Horror", "The Call of Cuthulhu" and the darkly humorous "Herbert West: Reanimator". Guaranteed to satisfy any Lovecraft junkie, and those who want to be introduced to the work of this great but underrated writer...
Lovecraft has many imitators but no equals. No one can match him in creating and sustaining lurking, inescapable, indescribable horror. He is the all-time master of the genre. Fabulous collection!
Just bought it. Love it without having read it.
Having been a devoted fan of Lovecraft all my life (he's my all-time favorite writer), I HAD to buy this book for the Kindle I just received today. It has almost all of his stories ... for only 1.99! That's less than 200 pennies! So far I only read From Beyond, one of my favorite stories of his. I found a few small typos, but that's okay. Editors are not perfect! Every book on the market has a least a couple of errors in them. I'm still giving this 5 stars. It's H.P. Lovecraft! HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended if you're an H.P. fan!
Damaged
The House on Mayberry Road
The Music of 1997
The Clown Picture
The Journal of Henry Boyer
The First Level of Hell
Damaged
The House on Mayberry Road
The Music of 1997
The Clown Picture
The Journal of Henry Boyer
The First Level of Hell
Before the horror and fantasy niche genres were invented, there was weird fiction. H.P. Lovecraft coined the term as a blending of elements of science, fantasy, and horror with a focus on dread-inspiring unknown forces and the defeat of any forces of nature which give us solace. Some authors preceded him, such as Lord Dunsany, and others published alongside him, such as Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. These authors found a forum to publish in the pulp rag Weird Tales, of which Lovecraft was a key contributor. While the group of weird fictionalists had varied focii, Lovecraft focused on horror, and perfecting that was his craft. Anyone who has read Lovecraft could apply the term "weird fiction" equally to the style and content of his writing, as his work includes as another reviewer put it, "almost crunchy" prose. In spite of that, he somehow manages to consistently provide very engrossing literature that will surely entertain in a chilling way...
The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft provides a keen insight into his works, and provides material from all three major categories of his works. The first half of the book is devoted to the 'Cthulu Mythos' of which is Lovecraft's claim to fame. These works, while not related directly story-wise, all are devoted to an alternate history for the earth's development with horrific ramifications for the present. These stories are generally longer tales which are thoughtfully divided into chapters for easier consumption. You can tell that a lot of these chapters were offered up seperately in Weird Tales since they sometimes provide overlapping details.
As an aside, if you are like me and like to read a whole book before beginning another one, even if it is a collection, would highly recommend reading the first half of this book as a seperate work of literature. The Cthulu Mythos stands on its own as a frighteningly intriguing collection, and it varies greatly from the second half of the book. So, my advice is to read the first half, go on to something else, and read the last half when you want to read a long collection of quite short stories.
This first section also contains "The Colour Out of Space" which doesn't really fit EXACTLY into the Cthulu Mythos per se, no direct references, but it is similar enough to not feel out of place. It also happens to be a favorite of mine: a quintessential dumb farmer finds a meteor story, but it is still awesome.
The second section of the book begins with the Dream Cycle, which is a much more metaphorical ride through time and space. This is very cool, much more interesting than it might sound, and it includes what are surely very personal thoughts and fears. The most notable thing about this change other than the style is the abrupt beginning and ending of the much shorter stories. These stories are geared to fit their length, which is a vivid contrast to the Cthulu Mythos which read like short novels with a slower pace of development, and different style "hooks" used in their development. Not all of the Dream Cycle are short stories, but you don't find longer stories until about 75% through the book.
The third major style of Lovecraft is the Macabre stories, and these are interspersed (note the second half is alphabetical) in the second section as well. These stories are primarily good old fashioned horror stories, but you wont find any spirits in white sheets and clanking chains here. Lovecraft might like multidimensional beings, but he really doesn't care for ghosts and his threats are always physical, not just scary looking. Some of these stories are of intermediate length as well, but primarily are short.
Standout stories include the entire Cthulu Mythos: The Nameless City, The Festival, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, Dreams in the Witch-house, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Shadow out of Time, At the Mountain of Madness, and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward which are quite frankly all excellent. A few others that I liked included: Celephais, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Herbert West: Reanimator, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, In the Vault, Medusa's Coil, and Through The Gates of the Silver Key.
I would note that the Kindle page says it includes the story "Darkness" but IT DOES NOT! GASP! You still get 67 tales as advertised, not 68 as listed.
Overall, this is a great collection that will chill you, thrill you, and take you back in time a century or so ago and further than that if you will let it. Lovecraft almost singlehandedly inspired what we call horror today, and it is good to go back and look at the roots of a very enjoyable genre to read.
The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft provides a keen insight into his works, and provides material from all three major categories of his works. The first half of the book is devoted to the 'Cthulu Mythos' of which is Lovecraft's claim to fame. These works, while not related directly story-wise, all are devoted to an alternate history for the earth's development with horrific ramifications for the present. These stories are generally longer tales which are thoughtfully divided into chapters for easier consumption. You can tell that a lot of these chapters were offered up seperately in Weird Tales since they sometimes provide overlapping details.
As an aside, if you are like me and like to read a whole book before beginning another one, even if it is a collection, would highly recommend reading the first half of this book as a seperate work of literature. The Cthulu Mythos stands on its own as a frighteningly intriguing collection, and it varies greatly from the second half of the book. So, my advice is to read the first half, go on to something else, and read the last half when you want to read a long collection of quite short stories.
This first section also contains "The Colour Out of Space" which doesn't really fit EXACTLY into the Cthulu Mythos per se, no direct references, but it is similar enough to not feel out of place. It also happens to be a favorite of mine: a quintessential dumb farmer finds a meteor story, but it is still awesome.
The second section of the book begins with the Dream Cycle, which is a much more metaphorical ride through time and space. This is very cool, much more interesting than it might sound, and it includes what are surely very personal thoughts and fears. The most notable thing about this change other than the style is the abrupt beginning and ending of the much shorter stories. These stories are geared to fit their length, which is a vivid contrast to the Cthulu Mythos which read like short novels with a slower pace of development, and different style "hooks" used in their development. Not all of the Dream Cycle are short stories, but you don't find longer stories until about 75% through the book.
The third major style of Lovecraft is the Macabre stories, and these are interspersed (note the second half is alphabetical) in the second section as well. These stories are primarily good old fashioned horror stories, but you wont find any spirits in white sheets and clanking chains here. Lovecraft might like multidimensional beings, but he really doesn't care for ghosts and his threats are always physical, not just scary looking. Some of these stories are of intermediate length as well, but primarily are short.
Standout stories include the entire Cthulu Mythos: The Nameless City, The Festival, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, Dreams in the Witch-house, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Shadow out of Time, At the Mountain of Madness, and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward which are quite frankly all excellent. A few others that I liked included: Celephais, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Herbert West: Reanimator, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, In the Vault, Medusa's Coil, and Through The Gates of the Silver Key.
I would note that the Kindle page says it includes the story "Darkness" but IT DOES NOT! GASP! You still get 67 tales as advertised, not 68 as listed.
Overall, this is a great collection that will chill you, thrill you, and take you back in time a century or so ago and further than that if you will let it. Lovecraft almost singlehandedly inspired what we call horror today, and it is good to go back and look at the roots of a very enjoyable genre to read.
Good, but could use organization
I love the stories, but the lack of a Table of Contents on the kindle version is pretty aggravating sometimes. Worth it in the end, though.
What an absolute joy to read some 'real' horror stories (again in this case). Something chilling instead of...well, you know, knife wielding idiots. Fantastic collection of beautifully written stories at a great price - and so influential on some of the better, later writers. Scary week for me, I'm dipping into this and also The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art by Clive Barker and Beyond by Paul Edwards. So that's the last 100 years covered!
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Read HPL's work throughout my childhood -- scared the hell out of me, but also opened my mind to the possibility of different realities -- might be different for today's kids, since there's so much more stuff around now, but I bet that anyone who sits down in a room at night with only one light on and reads a few of these stories will feel... something --- maybe not outright fear, but disquiet, as if something were slowly creeping up behind you, and you couldn't see it, no matter how quickly you turned around..... I thoroughly commend his stuff.
Wicked good tales of eldritch horrors and strange happenings.
If you're like I was before purchasing this eBook... you've seen various artistic renditions of Cthulu and the other monstrosities that inhabit the spaces outside our known universe, heard the term "Lovecraftian" in reference to other works, etc... but have never actually read the words of the man behind it all. In this case, there are probably very few better collections of his works available than this one. Perhaps one of the biggest virtues of this collection, aside from it's ludicrously low price, is the fact that unlike the various print editions I've considered, eBooks simply don't present any logical reason NOT to include all material that is available and relevant. While I can't say that all of the works presented here are of equal caliber, and the print collections probably cut out the "lesser" stories in favor of highlighting the more infamous ones and those that are considered the cream of the crop to fit within a page count limit imposed by the publisher, I have been able to find enjoyment in each tale I've ravenously devoured with no diminished eagerness to continue working my way through to the very last one.
The presentation of this collection itself is very simple and to-the-point, in that it has a table of contents (the "cover" page, using the Go To feature on the Kindle) listing the included stories, followed by the stories themselves with sections marked using roman numerals and a horizantal rule between them. It would have been nice if slightly more emphasis was given to the formatting of the book, but that is a very minor gripe that, in the shadow of the monolith that is this collection of top-quality horror tales, is entirely dismissible. Since I mentioned it though, what I'd like to have seen done better, if only by a slim margin, is as follows... a title/cover page, story titles/section numerals centered and in a larger font than the body text, and page breaks so that the beginning of the next story would not show up until the reader advances to the next page upon reaching the end of the story they are currently reading.
As to the content... well... let's just say that none of the various artistic renditions of Lovecraft's monsters truly do justice to the atmosphere of the works. These stories are, like any good horror story, best read at dusk or at night, without music or other distractions accompanying your reading. If you live in a quieter suburban and/or (semi-)rural area, read during the summer either outside or with a window cracked to let the nocturnal vocalizations of your local fauna garnish the landscape of your mind (you'll understand soon enough) as you read and allow your imagination to steep itself in the eldritch and macabre world that Lovecraft paints for you.
The presentation of this collection itself is very simple and to-the-point, in that it has a table of contents (the "cover" page, using the Go To feature on the Kindle) listing the included stories, followed by the stories themselves with sections marked using roman numerals and a horizantal rule between them. It would have been nice if slightly more emphasis was given to the formatting of the book, but that is a very minor gripe that, in the shadow of the monolith that is this collection of top-quality horror tales, is entirely dismissible. Since I mentioned it though, what I'd like to have seen done better, if only by a slim margin, is as follows... a title/cover page, story titles/section numerals centered and in a larger font than the body text, and page breaks so that the beginning of the next story would not show up until the reader advances to the next page upon reaching the end of the story they are currently reading.
As to the content... well... let's just say that none of the various artistic renditions of Lovecraft's monsters truly do justice to the atmosphere of the works. These stories are, like any good horror story, best read at dusk or at night, without music or other distractions accompanying your reading. If you live in a quieter suburban and/or (semi-)rural area, read during the summer either outside or with a window cracked to let the nocturnal vocalizations of your local fauna garnish the landscape of your mind (you'll understand soon enough) as you read and allow your imagination to steep itself in the eldritch and macabre world that Lovecraft paints for you.
Lovecraft is great. This edition, is not. The first paragraph of The Picture in the House, is missing. It makes me wonder what else is screwed up. Are there no more proofreaders?
First Lovecraft experience is a good one for sure.
I am only about halfway through this collection but I am happy to say that they are a great read. Every story in it's own right is awesome and they all convey the same empty, morbid strangeness that can no doubt be that Lovecraftian horror I have heard so much about. The Kindle format is great too. Since the download is massive (60+ stories), it would be quite tiresome to navigate to a specific story if it weren't for the interactive table of contents. If you are an old fan of the author, I cannot honestly say if these stories are 'original' in the sense of word to word transcriptions, but to a newcomer like me, they are fun to read and I would recommend them to anybody looking for something new to read.
I didn't know who H P Lovecraft was, but had read an article where Stephen King praised him, so I decided to check out his work.
It took the first couple of stories to get used to Lovecrafts style of writing, I believe most of the pieces were writen in the 1920's, to be honest I was considering giving up on him, but thought I'd read one more. Five stories later, I'm still reading, and thoroughly enjoying both the style (the outdated vocabulary, and phrasing that I found difficult at first is now one of the main drawing points that keeps me coming back to this book for more) and the content of the stories. I can see why so many of todays horror writers would have been influenced by his works.
I personally don't see the point in reviewing the individual stories in a collection like this. The book as a whole is giving me an insight into my own imagination and a better understanding of the horror genre.
I suggest you download the free sample (to me this is where the Kindle is worth it's weight in gold), if you enjoy it buy the full collection. and I hope you find the tales from H P Lovecraft as interesting and as entertaining as I do.
It took the first couple of stories to get used to Lovecrafts style of writing, I believe most of the pieces were writen in the 1920's, to be honest I was considering giving up on him, but thought I'd read one more. Five stories later, I'm still reading, and thoroughly enjoying both the style (the outdated vocabulary, and phrasing that I found difficult at first is now one of the main drawing points that keeps me coming back to this book for more) and the content of the stories. I can see why so many of todays horror writers would have been influenced by his works.
I personally don't see the point in reviewing the individual stories in a collection like this. The book as a whole is giving me an insight into my own imagination and a better understanding of the horror genre.
I suggest you download the free sample (to me this is where the Kindle is worth it's weight in gold), if you enjoy it buy the full collection. and I hope you find the tales from H P Lovecraft as interesting and as entertaining as I do.
I have the Libary of America collection of H.P. Lovecrafts Tales and when I got my kindle had to put some of his works on it.This is great just the tales with no one adding anything,the TOC is awesome I wish all kindle books had this feature most the the inexpensive books don't.
Yes, all of Lovecraft's stories are available for free. However, I decided $1.99 was a good deal for two reasons:
1. I'm new to the Cthulhu mythos and don't know where to start. The large number of works by Lovecraft are intimidating to navigate, so I'm glad someone has collected all his Cthulhu-related works in one easy package. All that footwork is well worth two bucks.
2. This is DRM-free.
I'm sure you've heard people rant about DRM. I'll be brief: Living authors need to eat. Give them money. Don't steal their work. Is it "right" or "wrong" to be able to do anything you like with your book once you've bought it? I'll leave that decision up to you. What I *AM* sure of is that I will never pay for a DRM-managed book that's available for free in the public domain. You may as well light your cash on fire. Then, find a hardworking volunteer and spit in their face for doing hard work for free instead of for profit.
On that note, I'm going to go donate $1.99 to Project Gutenberg, and encourage you to do so as well.
1. I'm new to the Cthulhu mythos and don't know where to start. The large number of works by Lovecraft are intimidating to navigate, so I'm glad someone has collected all his Cthulhu-related works in one easy package. All that footwork is well worth two bucks.
2. This is DRM-free.
I'm sure you've heard people rant about DRM. I'll be brief: Living authors need to eat. Give them money. Don't steal their work. Is it "right" or "wrong" to be able to do anything you like with your book once you've bought it? I'll leave that decision up to you. What I *AM* sure of is that I will never pay for a DRM-managed book that's available for free in the public domain. You may as well light your cash on fire. Then, find a hardworking volunteer and spit in their face for doing hard work for free instead of for profit.
On that note, I'm going to go donate $1.99 to Project Gutenberg, and encourage you to do so as well.
No table of contents for a paid kindle book. Look other editions where they spent time actually making an ebook version of this same content.
Ok, but definitely not like your newer horror writers!
I had sadly never heard of H.P. Lovecraft before, even though I have always considered myself an avid reader, but saw all the good reviews on this book & thought wow, great price, sounds like a good read from other reviewers, let's try it! I was born in the mid 70's but these stories just seem not the kind I am used to. :0) I am on my 5th story in the book and the 1st 4 I have been kinda shaking my head going huh? Maybe they are just too deep or mythical for me, or because they were wrote in the 1920's I just don't GET them. No scare to them that I can see and to be honest I was about ready to give up & not come back. The 5th story I can finally see some mystery in it and think ok maybe here we go. I will probably try to trudge through some more of them, but at this point I'm just not sure what all the fuss is about? Since I am not that far in, I am really hoping they will get better and I am willing to give it a go, but if you are expecting any kind of horror, mystery, thriller like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Saul, etc. these I just don't think are them...If I make it through the rest of the book I will try to come back & review again my overall opinion of the whole book itself.
CAN"T USE IT (but now I can, hah!)
I have a Nook and i was hoping to be able to buy this from Amazon and load it onto my Nook. No go. Amazon's DRM is a nightmare. So now I have a book and I can't read. Great.
EDIT: I was able to eventually convert it to EPUB and use Adobe Digital Editions to sink it to my Nook. Apparently this book doesn't have any DRM so this was a legal procedure. Cthulhu be praised!
EDIT: I was able to eventually convert it to EPUB and use Adobe Digital Editions to sink it to my Nook. Apparently this book doesn't have any DRM so this was a legal procedure. Cthulhu be praised!
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This book has it all - Lovecraft's best works that are guaranteed to give you a weird, eerie feeling, making you especially careful where you travel in the New England deep woods. "Like a man who walks a lonely road doth walk in fear and dread, because he knows that close behind, a fearsome fiend doth tread."
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