For October 6 Plot:While going through the effects of his late uncle, George Gammell Angell, professor emeritus of languages at Brown University, Francis Wayland Thurston discovers a small bas-relief depicting a creature, an amalgam of “an octopus, a dragon, and a human.” He further describes it: “A pulpy tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scalyContinue reading “Review of “The Call of Cthulhu” by H. P. Lovecraft: Halloween Countdown”
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Review of “The Secret of Kralitz” by Henry Kuttner Halloween Countdown
15) The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner Plot: As his father was dying, he warned Franz, now the twenty-first Baron of Kralitz, that the House of Kralitz was cursed. He couldn’t tell him how it was cursed and warned him against trying to seek out the nature of the curse. When it was timeContinue reading “Review of “The Secret of Kralitz” by Henry Kuttner Halloween Countdown”
Review of “The Dunwich Horror” by H. P. Lovecraft
6) “The Dunwich Horror” by H. P. Lovecraft Plot: Dunwich, Massachusetts, is a backwoods town settled by refugees from the Salem witch trials. Most people dislike it and avoid it now, though they couldn’t tell you why. Lavinia Whateley, the deformed and emotionally stunted daughter of Old Whateley, becomes pregnant and gives birth to WilburContinue reading “Review of “The Dunwich Horror” by H. P. Lovecraft”
Reviews of Old and New Stories. Mostly Old 