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Title: If you gonna read a typical HPL-book, pick something else
Review: This book was somewhat of a dissapointment to me, a devoted Lovecraft fan, because it contains only one story by the Great Old One. The rest is written by August Derleth, Lovecraft's friend and one of those who made the master's work famous after his untimely death. Derleth is, however, not a bad writer, but can in no way be compared with the original. Most of the stories deal with the things we already know; old, infamous mansions in isolated townships, warlock ancestors, witchcraft and unnameable things in basements and attics. Sure, this is all very exciting, but we have read it before and, most important of all, we have read it better written.
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