Status Updates From H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Lib...

Starting the final story less than two years after starting the whole book!

Finished 'The Shadow Out of Time'. I think the problem with unreliable narrators in speculative fiction genres, for me, is that I have accepted that the work is fiction and therefore assume that the unreal elements will relate somehow to the real world in a metaphorical, emotional, or allegorical sense; so if you ask 'did this really happen?', the answer, for me, is obviously 'no', but, fictionally, absolutely 'yes'.

Started reading 'The Shadow Out of Time'

Finished "The Thing on the Doorstep". I think generally the shorter a Lovecraft story is, the better.

Started "The Thing on thr Doorstep"

13-16/06/2025: 'The Dreams in the Witch House' - On the one hand, I think that I'm growing tired of a lot of the Lovcraftian tropes and the interminable build-ups to disaster that I can now see coming 75% of the story away; on the other, I read half of this story this morning and when you get into the meat of the story, the things that happen, they're generally very good.

I thought The Shadow Over Innsmouth started well, and it might be having a stressful week that put me off it, but it did drag at the middle. Loved the ending, though, so that's something