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Title: The Book of Iod by Henry Kuttner, Earl Geier, Robert M. Price ISBN: 1-56882-045-3 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: pulp master back to life
Comment: this book contains 3 great stories and a cuple of good ones. some are more fantasy than horror. kuttner can be a little bit obvious, a little bit simplistic, but the suspence, and he knows when to focus - when he should move forward and when he should stop and describe more vividly (his writing style focus concerning timing is excellent), his descriptions are good when they should be, and he knows how to hold our interest and how to avoid being boring.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good choice for Mythos fans
Comment: This book contains a number of stories by one of the lesser-known disciples of Lovecraft, one Henry Kuttner. Although the stories are not classics of the genre, showing development in a new direction, they rise above pastiche and provide good reading. Kuttner is certainly able to grab the reader's attention and hold onto it, and tells a good tale while he has it.
"Bells of Horror" is the high point of the volume; it is a fine story set in California, a locale the author clearly enjoys. It is this setting in a number of stories that gives the stories a unique flavor; Kuttner's descriptions create a new millieu for the eldritch horrors that are the center of the Cthulhu Mythos.
It is also "Bells of Horror" that first mentions The Book of Iod, a volume which belongs on the shelf with the usual suspects--De Vermis Mysteriis, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Cultes des Goules, the Book of Eibon, the Pnakotic Manuscripts, and, of course, (all together now) the horrible Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.
Kuttner's ability shows itself most in his ability to create a mythology. Instead of a few separate stories, the contents of this anthology fit together in intriguing ways--but they don't fit together seamlessly, just as other myth cycles don't. All in all, this collection is a very worthwhile read.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the greatest books i've ever read!
Comment: I thought this book was excellent! Most books have stories with happy little endings, but never a few unhappy endings. This book provided a mix of both. simply the best book of short stories ive read
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Title: Shub Niggurath Cycle by Robert M. Price, Lewis Spence, Glen Singer ISBN: 1568820178 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Antarktos Cycle: Horror and Wonder at the Ends of the Earth (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) by John Wood Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, John Glasby, Roger Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, John Taine, Jules Verne, Wilson Colin, Robert M. Price ISBN: 1568821468 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait by Robert M. Price, August W. Derleth, Ben P. Indick ISBN: 156882047X Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Mysteries of the Worm by Robert M. Price, Robert Bloch ISBN: 1568820127 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Nameless Cults (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) by Robert E. Howard ISBN: 1568821301 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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