Status Updates From The Best of H.P Lovecraft

I enjoyed the Whispers in the Witch House quite a bit. I liked the usage of architecture as the driving force of the main character’s madness, that witchcraft is just super duper advanced mathematics, and the crazy trippy dreams - it felt like something out of a nightmare on elm street movie at times. The Brown Jenkin was kinda a wild inclusion though, it lowkey made me giggle every time it was mentioned.

Shadow over Innsmouth kinda pisses me off, because the first three sections suffer from some of Lovecraft’s absolute worst pacing and most uninteresting narration. But then the fourth and fifth sections are so good and legitimately scary at times that it feels like a completely different story. This nearly 60-pg story should have been at most half of the length and would have been one of my favorites

The Haunter in the Dark was a pretty cool and interesting story - I like the church vibes and I liked the way he described the shining trapezohedron as granting ever-expansive knowledge, feels like a bit of meditation on faith and religion. The Thing on the Doorstep lowkey feels like his buddy got married then iced him out so he needed to get something off his chest, but I liked the concept and execution quite a bit