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Title: The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales by H. P. Lovecraft, John Pelan, Benjamin Adams ISBN: 0-345-44108-7 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lovecraft's themes, not his prose style
Comment: The authors of this collection do an excellent job of using Lovecraft's themes (alienation, atavism, family secrets, the true horrific nature of the cosmos) and his influences (Dunsany, Machen, Poe) while for the most part avoiding cliched devices and plots.
While there are stories set in Arkham or involving Shub-Niggurath (to cite two examples), the stories are interesting in their own right, rather than being excuses to add new lore. Horror is a constant element, with some stories sliding over into science-fiction or fantasy, and there's variation in how the narrative is structured, in the voice of the narrator and the prose styling.
This is going to be the anthology to beat in the field of Mythos fiction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fans will love this
Comment: THE CHILDREN OF CTHULHU is an engaging horror anthology written by many of the more popular genre authors of the last decade. The twenty-three contributors provide entertaining tales that would not turn HP Lovecraft over in his grave as many Cthulu "experts" do. However, though the stories engage the audience and are fun to read, they don't feel like a visit to that weird Lovecraft mythverse. As an aside to the editors: "if it ain't broke", cost it anyway because you still may find a bigger payback. This short story collection provides a big payback to horror fans, but Lovecraft fanatics will feel another let down as the original remains undisputedly the best even after seven decades of "fixing it".
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 3
Summary: Mostly not really Lovecraftian, but decent enough.
Comment: Most of the stories in this anthology adopt the trappings of Lovecraft's tales, but none of the style. The most loyal of the bunch is China Mieville's entry. The remainder of the tales drop names or refer to classic tales to remind the reader of the nature of the anthology. A few of the tales, such as "A Victorian Pot Dresser," begin well, but soon decend into stadard horror cliches, with tight little endings that follow standard movie logic. What's missing, what's forgotten, is that most of the dread that Lovecraft evoked in his stories came not from the events in themselves, but from the greater implications of those events -- the knowledge that humanity is supremely insignificant is the wider world and, despite the realization of this horror, we can never understand why, the very nature of reality being invisible to our inferior biology and intellect. Most of these stories skip such implications and head straight for the gruesome monsters and the spattering blood with a near-complete lack of subtlety.
Best to skip this one and stick with older material, if not Lovecraft himself. Most of the anthologies published by Chaosium are far superior.
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Title: Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos by Robert M. Price ISBN: 0345444086 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft ISBN: 034542204X Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology by Jim Turner ISBN: 0345422031 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Shadows over Innsmouth by Stephen Jones, Dave Carson, Martin McKenna, Jim Pitts ISBN: 0345444078 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab (Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series, 6034) by Robert M. Price ISBN: 156882162X Publisher: Chaosium, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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