LipsticksandNotebooks: All Hallow's Read: Necronomicon; The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

On a dank dark book shelf hanging in cobwebs I saw, by the merge light of the candlestick, the leather bound volume I had been searching for, the fearful letters scratched out in gold. The light flickered. I held my breath as I reached out my hand in the pitch darkness to click “add to shopping cart”.

Necronomicon; The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, promptly arrived in the post via Amazon. The volume is a terrifyingly large collection of weird tales written by the father of modern horror. The volume has 36 gruesome short stories and poems accompanied by set of painfully etched illustrations, finally there is an afterword detailing the life and work of H.P. Lovecraft the writer.

At a time when there was a lack in television or film images Lovecraft’s macabre fiction had a frightening impact on audiences. The stories have a gristly twist of science fiction and horror which were strange and refreshingly new at the time.

This coming evening, under the cloudless moon, by the dim light of candles have a read of ‘The Dunwich Horror’ or ‘The Hound’; uncanny tales of unnatural children and grave-robbing, but be sure to turn on the light if you glimpse the shadow of an unseen monster weaving his tentacles towards you…

Necronomicon, is a must have for the library of anyone who is a fan of weird fiction or the English language, as each tale reveal the wide vocabulary of the author who was blessed with a near-photographic memory.

I brought this leather bound anthology to get into the spirit of All Hallows Read and sneakily borrowed the short tale I am Legend by Richard Matheson from a friend.