Jonatwork wrote:
SiBurning,

Some of the Americana reminded me of Mark Twain without the edge that makes Twain enjoyable reading today. I've read a couple of the fantasy tales and they seem to take an awful long time to get to one image or idea--which is of course a hazard when reading early works in any genre. I have saved the 'good ones' until later, so here's hoping they hold up. I have never read "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" so I hope I'm not disappointed when I get to it.


To tie this in with the Lovecraft thread, you might want to try finding The Antarktos Cycle by Chaosium... it's an anthology of the "Antarctica" stories, both Mythos and non-Mythos. You get Poe's Pym story; a sequel by Jules Verne, no less; Lovecraft's "At The Mountains of Madness;" Campbell's "Who Goes There?"; a very interesting tale called "The Greatest Adventure" which is a long novella about an expedition to Antarctica that finds some ancient horrors, which may have influenced Lovecraft's tale; and a few odds and ends. The Poe and Verne tales are of interest to the thread subject here, but if you want all the other great stories tied up in one book, it's very nice to get.

A perfect Monster has no end...