On a dank dark book shelf hanging in cobwebs I saw, by the merge
light of the candlestick, the leather bound volume I had been searching for,
the fearful letters scratched out in gold. The light flickered. I held my
breath as I reached out my hand in the pitch darkness to click “add to shopping
cart”.
Necronomicon; The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft,
promptly arrived in the post via Amazon. It is a terrifyingly large collection
of weird tales written by the father of modern horror. The volume has 36
gruesome short stories and poems accompanied by set of painfully etched
illustrations, finally there is an afterword detailing the life and work of H.P.
Lovecraft the writer.
At a time when there was a lack in television or film images
Lovecraft’s macabre fiction had a frightening impact on audiences. The stories
have a gristly twist of science fiction and horror which were strange and
refreshingly new at the time.
This coming evening, under the cloudless moon, by the dim
light of candles have a read of ‘The Dunwich Horror’ or ‘The Hound’; uncanny tales
of unnatural children and grave-robbing, but be sure to turn on the light if
you glimpse the shadow of an unseen monster weaving his tentacles towards you…
Necronomicon, is a must have for the library of anyone who
is a fan of weird fiction or the English language, as each tale reveal the wide
vocabulary of the author who was blessed with a near-photographic memory.
I brought this leather bound anthology to get into the
spirit of All Hallows Read and sneakily borrowed the short tale I am Legend by Richard Matheson from a friend.
What’s your favourite horror story? Will you be reading any horror stories this evening?
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