‘ The Hound’… oh my gosh, the hound! Again, the opening lines really fed my imagination. I liked that it wasn’t ‘in-your-face’ horror but more psychological with just enough description to be unsettling with so much left to the reader’s imagination. “ … I can bear the torture no longer and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below… When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death.” ‘ Dagon’ sets the tone well with its opening lines: The majority of the stories are told in first-person, usually in the form of manuscripts, letters or diary entries I think it adds to the sense of mounting horror. I’m not going to go through each story, but I’ll pick the ones I particularly enjoyed. The 23 stories, listed in ‘date of publication’ order from 1923 to 1936, are:
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