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(3.75) | 11 | The stories in this book evoke an evil rarely rivaled in horror writing, representing the whole evolving trajectory of such notions as Hastur, the King in Yellow, Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, the Black Stone, Yuggoth, and the Lake of Hali. |
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This collection is gratefully dedicated to the memory of Fritz Lieber [sic], now traveling through hyperspace with Brown Jenkin.  | |
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Had August W. Derleth, coiner of the famous term "the Cthulhu Mythos", followed his first inspiration, we might be speaking today of "the Mythology of Hastur." | |
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This represents the 2nd edition of Chaosium's fiction anthology. Do not combine with the 1st edition, which this edition expands upon to contain additional stories. | |
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The stories in this book evoke a tracery of evil rarely rivaled in horror writing. They represent the whole evolving trajectory of such notions as Hastur, the King in Yellow, Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, the Black Stone, Yuggoth, and the Lake of Hali. A succession of writers from Ambrose Bierce to Ramsey Campbell and Karl Edward Wagner have explored and embellished these concepts so that the sum of the tales has become an evocative tapestry of hypnotic dread and terror, a mythology distinct from yet overlapping the Cthulhu Mythos. Here for the first time is a comprehensive collection of all the relevant tales. | |
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I love when other play in Lovecraft's sandbox, because they usually bring some great insights and directions into the mix. But this book is predicated on the idea of, "what if Hastur was bigger than Cthulhu?" and then collects a bunch of Hastur related stories.
It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately, none of the stories I read really wowed me, and I didn't feel like wading through the rest of them to keep getting the same disappointed feeling. Some neat ideas in there, but very dull execution.
DNF. Cthulhu (still) lives!