pickFor this being my first foray into Lovecraft, I sure have a lot of Cthulhu merch! Not pictured: The Cthulhu shirt I wore tonight. Okay: this collection is too crowded. Reading 31 stories in a month was fatiguing to most of our bookclub. Still a Pick, though: I think that the great stories in here were some of the best horror I‘ve read. He‘s a master of atmosphere, of ominous dread, and the language was often beautiful, a pleasure to read aloud.
Happy Halloween! If you‘re looking for a scary story to send you into nightmares tonight, I‘d recommend listening to the 1964 radio adaptation of “The Rats in the Walls.” All the horror without the abhorrent, racist cat name: https://www.relicradio.com/otr/2019/08/the-rats-in-the-walls-by-the-black-mass/
Nightmares do come true! https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/sinkhole-opens-in-nyc-sidewalk-plunging-man-into-...
Read three stories on our drive home today, one of them was “From Beyond.” The 1986 movie is on Shudder so of course we watched that when we got home. Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Lovecraft both produced and inspired such bizarre nightmare fuel.
We couldn‘t hold back any longer and just HAD to go browse at a real life bookstore! Online shopping is fine if you know what you want (Tagged was the only one on my list, and On the Beach was one of my favorite reads from 2019) but sometimes you can‘t know that you want to get a book called Catmagic! Not pictured: Flowers in the Attic. A CLASSIC I haven‘t read yet and oh my goodness. We started it yesterday and it is more than we could‘ve hoped.
Hawt damn! Good stuff to read as Halloween looms closer and closer....
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