![]() ![]() I’ve read The Shadow over Innsmouth many times and the highest praise I can give here is that Price’s intro made me want to re-read it immediately in order to catch what I had missed. Look, I’m sure it won’t be to everyone’s taste but if you want an immensely insightful take on one of Lovecraft’s seminal stories –what that very strange writer Michel Houellebecq calls one of his Great Texts – then this is essential reading. It is clever, and that’s nearly a bad word to some people, but I found it utterly fascinating. On second thoughts, this isn’t an introduction, it’s more like a mini-thesis but not a boring one that points at itself and says: Look how clever I am. I was two pages into this near-eight pages of really tiny type when I stopped, shook my head and went back to start again. Yes, that’s what I said: the introduction. Price, who also selects the tales and poetry here. The first thing I have to do here is to give a truly geekish fanboy rave to the introduction by Robert M. An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 6 ![]()
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