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Catching up on Malevolent made me want for more, so I've started reading Lovecraft and The King in Yellow again. I've already read some of both, but only finished some of Lovecraft's stories and half the short stories in The King in Yellow. I'm hoping to finish the latter at least.
Lovecraft is as much of a mixed bag as I remember, with some very nice and poetic phrasings and interesting concepts, some not so interesting stories, and some serious racism and xenophobia that crops up here and there in varying prominence. I still haven't read anything by him I liked as much as At the Mountains of Madness. The Shoggoths are keeping their place as my favourite Lovecraftian creatures for now.
The King in Yellow is as good as I remembered it to be.
Lovecraft is as much of a mixed bag as I remember, with some very nice and poetic phrasings and interesting concepts, some not so interesting stories, and some serious racism and xenophobia that crops up here and there in varying prominence. I still haven't read anything by him I liked as much as At the Mountains of Madness. The Shoggoths are keeping their place as my favourite Lovecraftian creatures for now.
The King in Yellow is as good as I remembered it to be.