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Title: This book is not the work of H.P. Lovecraft
Review: Despite the book's byline and what some reviewers here are telling you, this book is 99% the work of August Derleth, executor of the estate of H.P. Lovecraft. Derleth merely took a few sentences from Lovecraft's writing journal ("The Common Book") and made stories out of them, claiming collaboration. He used the same ideas over and over again, which is why these short stories begin to humorously resemble on another after awhile (come on, how many stories can you end with a massive run on sentence in italics?). Guy inherits house, guy finds old books, guy goes nuts. Derleth never really understood Lovecraft's appeal. Interesting only if you've read most of Lovecraft's work, and Derleth has done much better mythos pastisches: check out Carroll and Graf's "Mask of Cthulhu" and "Trail of Cthulhu", both of which have Derleth's byline instead of a hoax!
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