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The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

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May 04, 2026 02:05PM

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H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection

by H.P. Lovecraft

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" My incoherent thoughts on the stories as I read them, more for my own reference and less like an actual review.

🦑 Favorites 🦑
The Thing on the Doorstep: Male brains > female brains
The Color Out of Space: Favorite so far; Very Machen
Dagon: Cool slimy li My incoherent thoughts on the stories as I read them, more for my own reference and less like an actual review.

🦑 Favorites 🦑
The Thing on the Doorstep: Male brains > female brains
The Color Out of Space: Favorite so far; Very Machen
Dagon: Cool slimy liminal space, fish god, incurable madness, "God, that hand! The window! The window!"
The Outsider: Reminiscent of Machen's The White People, vibe-wise; I feel like the "twist" was immediately obvious although I didn't mind it, I enjoyed the journey of the revelation anyway
The Rats in the Walls: Top-tier descent into madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Dilapidated New England fishing town? Check. Curious well-to-do idiot sticking his nose where it doesn't belong? Check. Cool evil jewelry? Check. Horny fish people? Check. A twist that I actually didn't see coming? Check.
The Dreams in the Witch House: Math! Fourth dimension! Worm holes?? Weird landscapes and geometry! I want a Brown Jenkin familiar.

🕯️Pretty Cool 🕯️
The Statement of Randolph Carter: YOU FOOL, WARREN IS DEAD
The Lurking Fear: H.P. loves to equate inbreeding with creating monsters I guess? Guy getting his face ripped off standing at the window was my favorite part; Also, cannibals with heterochromia is pretty sick (in the good way and in the bad way)
The Horror at Red Hook: Okay Howard, we get it, you hate foreign people. Maybe dial back the racism just a bit? No? Okay. Lilith cultists and secret realm(?) were cool and creepy. Also, where did the Robert's body come from I'm confused
The Shunned House: Mostly uninteresting until the end with the giant elbow and whatnot
The Dunwich Horror: Hey, more inbreeding! Probably a lot of lore that I don't understand yet and the prose was kinda hard to get through
At the Mountains of Madness: Man, the pacing of this was so good for about the first half, then became glacial. Hard to get through the last half. Very cool concepts though.

💀 Meh 💀
The Music of Erich Zann: My least favorite so far; More reminiscent of Le Fanu
The Whisperer in Darkness: Fine, but felt too drawn out ...more "

May 01, 2026 05:58PM · see review