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Andrew –
This book I guess is a victim of its own success. The series was started some years ago when the role playing game (also published by Chaosium) was riding high. The series aimed at publishing stories from the mythos both famous and not so famous with the idea of bringing back in to print those lesser known or published stories - usually following a specific theme - in this case Shub-Niggurath. The reason why I say this was a victim of its own success was that ideal I have just mentioned meant that This book I guess is a victim of its own success. The series was started some years ago when the role playing game (also published by Chaosium) was riding high. The series aimed at publishing stories from the mythos both famous and not so famous with the idea of bringing back in to print those lesser known or published stories - usually following a specific theme - in this case Shub-Niggurath. The reason why I say this was a victim of its own success was that ideal I have just mentioned meant that the stories varied ALOT in both style and content but also ease of reading. Some of the connections were very tenuous and I struggled to follow what was going on. I guess that could be said about any themed anthology but with just about everything changing except its connection to the central character and at times even that was only implied. This series of books (I have lost count of how many there are and the series has evolved over time) represents a massive collection of work much of which you will not find anywhere else - so for a true fan of H P Lovecraft's legacy this series is a must however do not expect to see any work of his in this book.
Andy Simmons –
This is quiet frankly one of the best collections of short stories I've read in a long time. Normally, in a collection, there are a few stories that are below par but this collection varied from excellent down to good; dwelling primarily in the former category. The stories are printed in chronological order of writing/publication. As the title suggests, they're primarily themed around the Great Old One Shub Niggurath. The early stories concern supernatural tale with a "goat" theme and the later This is quiet frankly one of the best collections of short stories I've read in a long time. Normally, in a collection, there are a few stories that are below par but this collection varied from excellent down to good; dwelling primarily in the former category. The stories are printed in chronological order of writing/publication. As the title suggests, they're primarily themed around the Great Old One Shub Niggurath. The early stories concern supernatural tale with a "goat" theme and the later stories are more classically Cthulhu mythos inspired. These earlier stories all very much read like M. R. James' tale of unease; a real pleasure for myself. As the theme of Shub Niggurath is developed from Lovecraft's original writing, the stories dwell less on the goat aspect and more on the otherworldly horror of S.N. My one criticism is that some of these stories are shoehorned into this collection to pad it out as they don't, in my opinion, focus on S.N. That said, though, all of the stories are of high quality and I would prefer a collection like this than one with lower quality tales that may be a bit closer to the mark. This one collection I will definitely pick up again to browse through.
Felix –
While the eponymous Shub-Niggurath is what binds these stories together, they nevertheless are rather disparate. No homogenous concept of the entity emerges and while this might be due to the fact that Shub-Niggurath is not elaborated in Lovecraft's original mythos tales (as editor Robert M. Price notes), there is also the problem that Shub-Niggurath is not very present in some of these stories except by name. There is no text by Lovecraft included and most of the stories are written rather by th While the eponymous Shub-Niggurath is what binds these stories together, they nevertheless are rather disparate. No homogenous concept of the entity emerges and while this might be due to the fact that Shub-Niggurath is not elaborated in Lovecraft's original mythos tales (as editor Robert M. Price notes), there is also the problem that Shub-Niggurath is not very present in some of these stories except by name. There is no text by Lovecraft included and most of the stories are written rather by the latter-day epigones of the writer, such as Lin Carter, Richard L. Tierney and Robert M. Price. While there is no exceptionally good story to be found, neither is an extremely bad one. There are one or two weak stories but most of them are entertaining reads even if they lack the horror or lingering dread that makes a good mythos tale.
The Artificer –
Overall a fairly solid collection of "Mythos" fiction. There are a few weak selections (Lin Carter, I'm looking at you) and a few early entries that quite literally have nothing mythos-tinged about them (an evil goat has no inherently Lovecraftian elements). The quality of stories is better than average for writers working in Lovecraft's shadow, and some of them step out onto their own with great success, "Harold's Blues" by Glen Singer was exceptionally good, and Robert Price's "A Thousand Young" Overall a fairly solid collection of "Mythos" fiction. There are a few weak selections (Lin Carter, I'm looking at you) and a few early entries that quite literally have nothing mythos-tinged about them (an evil goat has no inherently Lovecraftian elements). The quality of stories is better than average for writers working in Lovecraft's shadow, and some of them step out onto their own with great success, "Harold's Blues" by Glen Singer was exceptionally good, and Robert Price's "A Thousand Young" excellently illustrates the energy of a Shub-Niggurath cultist. Certainly worth picking up.
Kewan –
La maggior parte dei racconti è decisamente per appassionati, e si fa apprezzare soprattutto per il sapore un po' ruspante che li caratterizza. Il livello tende comunque ad alzarsi nella seconda metà del libro. Non mancano alcune gemme: "Harold's Blues", "The Moon Lens" e soprattutto "Grossie" nobilitano in qualche modo un'antologia che altrimenti sarebbe solo discreta. La maggior parte dei racconti è decisamente per appassionati, e si fa apprezzare soprattutto per il sapore un po' ruspante che li caratterizza. Il livello tende comunque ad alzarsi nella seconda metà del libro. Non mancano alcune gemme: "Harold's Blues", "The Moon Lens" e soprattutto "Grossie" nobilitano in qualche modo un'antologia che altrimenti sarebbe solo discreta.
Christopher Sutch –
Price has collected some very good tales about one of the more obscure of Lovecraft's pantheon. Very entertaining, and very interesting to see the innovations in Lovecraftian fiction some writers began trying to produce at the end of the last century. Price has collected some very good tales about one of the more obscure of Lovecraft's pantheon. Very entertaining, and very interesting to see the innovations in Lovecraftian fiction some writers began trying to produce at the end of the last century.
Matthew J. –
A really good anthology devoted to the oft mentioned, but rarely featured Great Old One. If you're into Lovecraft and his ever expanding circle of disciples, this is definitely one to track down. If you just enjoy some odd tales, there are plenty contained within. Good stuff. A really good anthology devoted to the oft mentioned, but rarely featured Great Old One. If you're into Lovecraft and his ever expanding circle of disciples, this is definitely one to track down. If you just enjoy some odd tales, there are plenty contained within. Good stuff.
Timothy Boyd –
A collection of stories based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. These are, to me, only slightly better than the original Lovecraft stories. Just not a fan of his writings. Not recommended
Bryan Whitehead –
This is the seventh book in Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu series that I’ve read (though the fourth one published), and I note a couple of differences between this outing and the first six I’ve made it through. To start, none of the stories included herein were actually written by H.P. Lovecraft. That’s natural enough, given that he never wrote a story specifically about the Goat with a Thousand Young. Unfortunately, it’s also remarkable for featuring a relatively large percentage of off-topic stori This is the seventh book in Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu series that I’ve read (though the fourth one published), and I note a couple of differences between this outing and the first six I’ve made it through. To start, none of the stories included herein were actually written by H.P. Lovecraft. That’s natural enough, given that he never wrote a story specifically about the Goat with a Thousand Young. Unfortunately, it’s also remarkable for featuring a relatively large percentage of off-topic stories. A couple of the early entries are about generic-brand demonic goats, connected to Shub Niggurath only by some fur and cloven hooves. Then later in the set editor Robert M. Price chooses to include a couple of stories that aren’t directly connected to the title figure in any way, though one of these entries, David Kaufman’s “Grossie,” is one of the better tales in the set. Price also stuffs in a couple of tales in which “Shub Niggurath” appears as little more than a stand-in for a more traditional Devil, almost as if someone used a find-and-replace function in a word processor to produce a tale that conformed to the book’s theme in order to facilitate a sale. I also thought it was disingenuous of Price to omit any discussion of the inherent racism of the name. A story tackling this thorny issue head-on would also have been a welcome addition. But even with such drawbacks in mind, this is still an entertaining read.
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