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Nick Perzacki
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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
— Oct 19, 2026 10:35PM
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Nick Perzacki
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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.
— Oct 27, 2026 10:30PM
Nick Perzacki
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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
— Oct 24, 2026 09:55PM
Nick Perzacki
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Never thought a glowing cloud of mist could be so freaky, but The Colour Out of Space wound up being one of the best stories in this collection. I think the fact that there wasn’t even any semblance of a form to grasp made it much scarier than some of the monsters Lovecraft has thought up - what are you supposed to do if a sentient fart from an asteroid disintegrates everything living in its vicinity?
— Oct 12, 2026 09:45PM
Nick Perzacki
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This may be my new favorite - I’m not certain if the somewhat predictable nature of some of the reveals is intentional, but for me it felt like it just added to the horror. The layers of mysteries are creepy and I love the hubris of Wilmarth, because basically the whole story was just me screaming at him “HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THE SIGNS YOU IDIOT” and watching him naively waltz straight into a nightmare.
— Oct 09, 2026 09:58PM
Nick Perzacki
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Honestly I thought the Dunwich Horror was fine, with some cool moments, but the last line recontextualizing the whole second half of the story makes me enjoy it much more in retrospect. I think that’s been one of Lovecraft’s biggest strengths throughout this book - even if I don’t love a story, his endings are usually one of the best parts for me and often subsequently raise my enjoyment of the story.
— Oct 07, 2026 10:42PM
Nick Perzacki
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Kind of a bummer that The Call of Cthulhu contains some of Lovecraft’s most chilling lines in the book so far, with probably my favorite overall narrative with all the creepy reveals and fantastic imagery. It’s a bummer cause this is also probably the story in this book with the most blatant xenophobia (at least so far), which was kind of distracting at times in the first two parts.
— Oct 06, 2026 12:54PM
Nick Perzacki
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The Silver Key lowkey felt like Lovecraft’s philosophy lecture, which I genuinely enjoyed; i liked his pontifications on dreams, and though not really scary the ending was sufficiently unsettling to leave me satisfied. The Music of Erich Zann was my favorite story so far, it was the first one i felt I could really get sucked into the scene, and because of that it was the first to feel genuinely scary for me.
— Oct 05, 2026 10:31PM
Nick Perzacki
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I liked Pickman’s Model - it was effectively creepy and mysterious, and, as with most of the stories so far, had a wonderfully disturbing reveal to close it out. In the Vault was fine for me, it did well to establish the trapped feeling in a creepy setting, but overall I didn’t get too much from it.
— Oct 04, 2026 10:53PM
Nick Perzacki
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Read the first 3 stories; I don’t know if I was just really sleepy while reading but apparently the first two were about cannibals, and I somehow fully missed that. The rats in the walls was creepy enough without me catching onto the cannibalism, but third one, the Outsider, I really liked - very creepy lonesome vibes and a pretty cool reveal at the end.
— Oct 04, 2026 11:35AM