When I was in grade three, I was lucky enough to have a grade six friend who lived next door and who enjoyed introducing me to such publications as Mad Magazine and Weird Tales, which may have been a bit early for me. It didn't do me any harm . . . perhaps!
the colours on that cover are beautiful 😻 im still looking at attending worldcon in glasgow, its my weekend on at work but i might be able to attend the sunday
Yup! So this is anthology and essays of the Weird Tales magazine (US) but the British Library also prints many many anthologies of weird fiction by theme (like the one on ships I reviewed a few videos ago). So there are many ways to get variants of weird fiction
I saw it when it came out and wanted it. I told my partner but then we both forgot and are moving so not a good time to have anything sent via mail. I just special ordered it from inter library loan because I don't want to wait longer.
Very interesting! Thank you for shedding more light on this genre... if you had to recommend 1 book by h.p. Lovecraft to someone that hasn't read anything by him, what would it be? (Or would it be this anthology?) Thank you!
H.P. Lovecraft published a lot of short stories more than solid books/novels and the ones often anthologised are "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Rats in the Walls" and "the colour out of space." All great stories and wondeful place to start. At the Mountains of Madness is a longer work I also love (review to come very soon on that one)
@InfiniteText Just bought a collection of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories! Just read "Dagon" and really enjoyed it. The collection I have has the 3 stories you recommended (but not the longer work unfortunately). Looking fwd to reading more of his stories, tha ks! 😊
