The Call of Cthulhu
Impressions
- Cooper Kelleyshared an impression8 years ago
👍Worth reading💀Spooky🔮Hidden DepthsNot sorry that I picked this one up. My body will hate me for a general lack of rest these next couple of days, but my mind is pleased. Lovecraft is brilliant and horrific. I expected a story of a monster, but instead found a mystery of the deep, of the stars and of man's ability to test the waters of madness.
- viridianpetalshared an impression8 days ago
👍Worth reading🎯Worthwhile💤Borrrriiinnng!2.5/5. Rounded up to 3.
Honestly… the short story is not great. The premise, which most people definitely heard about, about a giant horrific creature eons old, is definitely interesting. How can it not be? But the story wasn't executed well, which many people are starting to agree on.
Still, if you're reading it in recent times, I'm willing to bet that it's because of all the hype about it. In reality, it's repetitive, anticlimactic, and… boring. I'm the type of person who can read numerous pages that are just describing the surroundings in a book, but I found myself yawning at galactic horror. I am horrified by the premise, and bored by the subpar execution.
This story is one of the founding pillars of horror fiction, and I can see how it would be earth-shaking when it first came out. But it just doesn't stand the test of time, in my opinion. Despite my gripes with the book, I do think that's it's worth giving it a read since it's one of the classics. I'll try to eventually read more stories by H.P. Lovecraft, and I hope that they're better than this one… Or that it at least has less casual racism, and fewer descriptions of literally anything and everything with the word "queer"(strange; odd.). - tekla ugulavashared an impressionlast year
👍Worth readingGreat story. American horror story could tack it as one of season ideas.
Quotes
- sneakYMfhas quoted6 years ago
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - Tara Nivian-Bealhas quoted6 years ago
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die - Tara Nivian-Bealhas quoted6 years agoOnly poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms
