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Title: August P Derlethcraft
Review: Actually, this volume consists of HPL pastiches by August Derleth, presented as posthumus completions of unfinished stories or based on notes made by Lovecraft while he was alive. In reality, Derleth would often take as little as a single isolated sentance from Lovecraft's notebooks and spin a tale around it. Derleth handles the Mythos shoddily, making the tales far more repetitive, predictable and inanely cross-referential than Lovecraft would have, and without the fine (if often overblown) melodramatic flourishes that marked Lovecraft's style.Derleth is only ever half good when describing scenery - at which he excels Lovecraft. Otherwise, it's a lukewarm volume of Lovecraft Lite, and only one for the confirmed fan - newcomers should look to the Penguin editions, edited by ST Joshi for a more authentic entry to Lovecraft's work.
