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Sadly none of these stories would make a good movie because the horror the characters experience can only be reproduced in dreams

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The book was a birthday present and gleefully received

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The poems are not their inclusion would have made it five stars

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However readers who appreciate a cerebral read and writers who are serious about their own work recognise that is it essential to read the literary cannons but to avoid replicating this style with modern horror

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Just as gray becomes obsessed by his portrait and unable to overcome its evil influence the painting in lovecraft’s tale wields its spell over the protagonist

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Youve probably even managed to steel yourself against his historically contextualized but still disturbing racism and misogyny

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Youve even debated about all of these things with your friends irl and online and about what it is about his alienated nihilistic vision that still draws you to his eldritch horrors

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If youre here because youve heard this fellow lovecraft mentioned somewhere and are just curious turn back now and go find one of the selections edited by joshi or joyce carol oates