Since this is an anthology the authors’ skill levels and styles were all over the board. I enjoyed 2 out of the dozen or so actual stories. The in-between descriptions of the Gods were my favorite part. If the whole book had just been more descriptions of Lovecraftian Gods, written in such a way, I’d have been much happier with this book. Not to mention the narration is a bit off. He puts a strange emphasis on certain words and his pronunciation in several parts is just very strange, this, coupled with a monotonous tone that doesn’t do the “unspeakable horrors” within justice. When he says R’lyeh, it comes out almost as a gag, and it made me laugh with how sudden and awkward the to the ear it was. I appreciate him being creative with the pronunciation of these strange, alien words, unspeakable to human tongue, but I wish he’d gone with something that didn’t sound quite so silly. All in all, I think there are better Lovecraftian adaptations, but if you’re trying to read everything and absorb anything on the market, this isn’t necessarily the worst. I will say the description of Shub-Niggurath is probably my favorite, she’s not very well fleshed out in the original works of H.P but whomever wrote the description did her justice.
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