Omnibus: At the Mountains of Madness No. 1 - H.P Lovecraft

Advantages: Dreamy, Whimsical, completely out of this world, very atmospheric
Disadvantages: Writing quite archaic, predictable

As a rule of thumb I don't often read horror, I've turned down repeated recommendations to read Stephen King, Clive Barker et al. They didn't really capture my imagination or sense of literary endeavour. I've even learnt that I have rare version of a Ramsey Campbell novel supposedly a work of unimaginable terror, that I started reading but stopped part of the way through. (And no it wasn't because I was scared … much, ahem!!) So anyway my excursions ...
...to say the least, yet in Lovecraft I seem to have found a portal to greater things and more desirable content. Lovecraft is often looked upon as a forerunning figure of the 'Weird' genre which has recently come back into play in the shape of Gaiman and Mieville among others, now fittingly being called 'new weird'. It was termed weird through its publication in a magazine called 'weird tales' in the early stages of the twentieth century. 'Weird' ... Read review