Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345021472 (0345021479)
ASIN: 0345021479
Publish date: 1971-02
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 138
Edition language: English
Re-reading some of my favorite horror stories, consuming the stories as if they were some strange wines that I have kept in the basement, hidden amongst vintages less divine; with such labels blackened unreadable and corks re-affixed with age-blooded wax. Why they were hidden away in such corners of...
The only thing horrible about this book is the verse itself. Some sort of Swinburne pastiche. Lovecraft's range is from bad to appalling. The early poems are particularly awful. It is a good thing that Lovecraft stuck mostly to fiction. Only for the Lovecraft, or Ballantine Adult Fantasy comple...