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Published: Oct. 28, 2012
Words: 108,372 (approximate)
Language: English
Short description
Startling Stories meets Weird Tales in SPACE ELDRITCH, a volume of seven original novelettes and novellas of Lovecraftian pulp space opera.Extended description
Startling Stories meets Weird Tales in SPACE ELDRITCH, a volume of seven original novelettes and novellas of Lovecraftian pulp space opera. Featuring work by Brad R. Torgersen (Hugo/Nebula/Campbell nominee), Howard Tayler (multiple Hugo nominee), and Michael R. Collings ( author of over 100 books), plus a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Larry Correia, SPACE ELDRITCH inhabits the intersection between the eternal adventure of the final frontier and the inhuman darkness between the stars.Full contents:
Foreword – Larry Correia (Read more)
Tags
horror, scifi, pulp, space opera, lovecraft, cthulhuAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Kevin Nault
on Dec. 02, 2012 :
This is a good collection of Lovecraftian fiction (though not a great one). Some of the stories are ambitious but I didn't feel like they really hit home. Several stories, though, are wonderful explorations of personal horror. My favorites were Larry Correia's and Howard Taylor's stories, though your mileage may vary. Even the stories that I didn't think brought the horror home fell short only because they shot for the moon.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)
Review by:
Airy Krich-Brinton
on Nov. 21, 2012 :
(no rating)
Very exciting! I'm also a Schlock Mercenary fan, but I haven't read this genre before. This was my first experience of it, and I liked it. The stories are sexist, but not blatantly so, just enough to show that they were written by males for males... but are still quite enjoyable by women. I perceive that the ingredients of this genre are strong men, sexy women, space, monsters, and God. A heady combination.
Flight of the Runewright was my favorite, it suggests jewel-tones.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)
Review by:
mashiara
on Nov. 20, 2012 :
Another Schlock Mercenary (Tayler) fan here. I read quite a bit of Lovecraft-style weird fiction (along with sci-fi and fantasy). Flight of the Runewright was great, Gods in Darkness I also liked (I guess I'm a sucker for space-combat), Fury in the Void might have been executed better but I liked the "Space Marine" (Warcraft 40k) style setting. Menace Under Mars I feel a bit conflicted about, at times it's great, at times less so. "Arise" (the first story) does a fine job of weaving different times/dimensions together for the story.
All in all very good collection and not expensive either.
I would also recommend checking out the Arkham Tales (I'm in the middle of the last magazine right now), also curated by Shumate: http://www.coldfusionmedia.us/arkham-tales-1-5-free/
For some truly awesome "Lovecraft in Space" check out Mongoose by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (http://drabblecast.org has an audio version for free [search for it, the direct url is a mile long]), this is the story that got me hooked on both of the authors: Get Monettes "The Bone Key" -collection for superb classical style horror.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)
Review by:
Chris Ellinger
on Nov. 18, 2012 :
An enjoyable read. I'm not much of a horror-reader normally, and really only downloaded this for the story by Howard Tayler. I wouldn't say the collection scared me, but I can't tell if that's because it wasn't scary or just because I lack the imagination to be frightened by good horror fiction.
Style varied a bit from one story to the next, but there are a couple of really great ones. Flight of the Runewright was my favourite and showed the imagination and depth of world you would expect from Tayler. Menace under Mars was also enjoyable, having more of a classic-sci fi feel to it. Space was a really intriguing piece of world building.
Generally speaking the literary quality was very good (only one story felt like a bit of a slog) which is one of the things I have often found suffers with sci fi (can't speak for horror having read little of it).
Overall well worth the cost and the time to read.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)