![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly the person survives any ordeal because he is telling the story. The fact that Lovecraft writes all these stories in the first person serves to remove much of the suspense. Although, I can imagine that an audience in the early part of the 20th century would find them disturbing. Second, as horror stories, I didn’t find them all that horrifying. Mostly this collection is one of horror stories originally published in magazines. But I happened to have this in the house, courtesy of Penguin Random House (the publisher gifted me a set of their new “orange” Penguin Classics a few years ago), and it carries the “science fiction” tag so it fit a challenge.First, these stories are mostly NOT science fiction, although one, dealing with aliens removing the brains of humans but keeping the bodies and brains both alive separately probably would qualify. Of course, I’ve heard of H P Lovecraft for years, but I’d never bothered to read anything by him. ![]()
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