The call of cthulhu and other weird stories

This book is a seires of short stories By the early 20th Century horror writer,
H.P. Lovecraft. I chose to read the Shadow Over Innsmouth.

H.P. Lovecraft's writing style is fairly nondescript, the reason being is that the terror his protagonists feel is from things they cannot describe or he has no idea why he is so horrified. His stories are typically about the sheer insignificance humans have in the universe. his stories are littered with beings that are indescribably horrifing with names the human speech organs cannot pronounce, such as Cthulhu. There is an otherworldy nature to some of his stories, such as, in one story, an island of black tar that comes out of the ocean one night under a man stranded in a boat. In another story a man has to traverse a giant antartic mountian range.

Mind you that I do not do the horror of this story any justice in this entry.

In this story our main character goes to a fairly rundown town in Rhode Island, inhabited by people who look, ever so slightly, like fish. Their fishy appearance is very horrifing to our main character, so he decided to ask some of the more normal looking people. He gets wind that a drunk in town knows a dark secret about the appearance and cult behaivaors of the townspeople. there is a surprise ending that I can't reveal.

Lovecraft has a somewhat antique way of writing, he uses intracate language mixed in with phrases that were out of use even for his time, like electric torch instead of flashlight. the writing style is similar to poe, one of his greatest influences. Overall the story was very enjoyable and I do like the language he uses, it makes some of the science fiction seem antique. the indescribable nature of most of the horror is more like how the mind works, it is most often very hard to describe what makes something truly terrifing. I would recommend most of Lovecraft's stories to fans of science fiction and horror.