The Whisperer in Darkness

I understand the influence Lovecraft had on the suspense genre however this being my first attempt to understand a little bit more about his writing, I found it quite complex and incoherent at times. I was not a fan definitely :/

Rating All 19 Lovecraft Stories Within the Necronomicon (Audible Audio Book) ~ Part 5 - The Whisperer In Darkness. One of the more creepy Lovecraft tales, the story hooks you with the great character development between two scientifically-minded individuals; a sceptical folklorist and an intelligent hermit living in the vicinity of a forest holding a secret aeons old. I would highly recommend this book as one of the first ones to read when attempting to get yourself or a friend into the Lovecraftian universe, it's creepy, gives you a taste of his writing style and isn't too long.

'The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.' I took my sweet, sweet time reading this collection of short stories, mostly because I am a novice in the Lovecraftian world of death and fear, but also because the ingenuity of the author lays precisely in the slow decent to madness; in being slowly but surely absorbed in the doomsday atmosphere he so marvelously creates by using incredibly creative, never-before thought-of compound adjectives. His style of writing is not for those unused to old-fashioned syntax, but having read many, many classics, I found this not troublesome. However, his over-use of adjectives may confound you a bit and you may find yourself losing track of the narrative in certain places because you are overwhelmed by words. But I guess that is a part of that slow decent into madness- you really feel like you are losing yourself in the space-time continuum. This collection contains some of his best and most famous stories, such as 'The Call of Cthlhu' and 'At the Mountains of Madness', and is a great place for a beginner who doesn't know too much about the Lovecraft Mythos, but is nevertheless ready to plunge into it and enjoy the wild ride. All in all, I really enjoyed my introduction to Lovecraft and am glad that I took time to slowly read and appreciate each of the stories included here, because it has only left me hungry for more.