Tales of Yog-Sothoth: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology (Books of Cthulhu Book 2)

Some excellent stories. It has been a while since finding a collection of stories with such variety and 'charm' :> with one exception.I am fan of David Hambling and having his story, "The Ghost Door" was top of the list and reason for buying the book. I read it. Loved the story itself. Found the mystery and scare factor top notch as always. Then along comes the big nasty BUT! Who edited or read his story before it got published? I KNOW I KNOW! 19th Century vernacular is his style. BUT nothing should cause his reader to stumble over or stumble over double words page after page in the story. Nothing to do with the language. JUST POOR EDITING or proof reading of the story. Distracting as hell and if Mr. Phipps was supposedly the Editor he was not doing his job. Five stars to Hambling for the story, three stars to Phipps for editing.I move on . . .Then I ran across David Niall Wilson, a vernacular writer who made me smile because I recognised my relatives from back home Arkansas and South Georgia. But despite the vernacular and the homey start I was surprised and disturbed by the overall irritating and unpleasant and angering story line. It is ok, I know Mr. Wilson has a passel of fans who just love his down home style. But he wanders in his story telling, getting to the core of the short story point without making clear any Mythos connection for the longest part of the tale.As for the rest of the stories I was glued to the book till I reached the final page of the FINAL GATE and enjoyed that one a great deal. Despite the writer leaving me, a person who has not read his work, ignorant of his heroes dual personality and the strange world in which the story plays out. A little more fore knowledge and prologue would have helped make sense of the hero and his supernatural elements that actually ran the story.I give this book only four stars for these reasons. Originally it was three stars but felt guilty because I loved several of the stories enough to want to reread them.OVERALL READ THIS AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF!

I only bought it for the Harry Stubbs story by David Hambling. It was up to it's usual high, interesting and engaging standard.I haven't (yet) read any of the other stories but the Harry story makes it a worthwhile purchase.

Not bad, but the tales lack the taste of Lovecraft's Cosmicism, IMO.

Not very Lovecraft. No madness at the sight of cosmic horrors, shooting them works out sometimes. No mentally destroyed people even after their first contact with elder things. A lot of survivors. Meh.

The Dunwich horror is my favorite lovecraft story, so stories like this I tend to judge very harshly, but these stories did a very good job. Special standouts for me were David Hamblings "the Ghost Door" , and CT Phipps " The True name of god"If you love Lovecraft and especially his creation Yog -Sothoth. Pic this one. up.