Michael Feingold (review date 1985)
SOURCE: Feingold, Michael. “Lovecraft's Unliterary Terrors.” Village Voice 30, no. 12 (19 March 1985): 45.
[In the following review of The Dunwich Horror and Others, Feingold asserts that the sixteen stories in this collection are good as horror stories but hold no other significant literary merit.]
To know H. P. Lovecraft's stories is to know fear, but not literature. Which would be no problem if his devotees didn't insist on trying to promote him to some kind of dignified literary status. In this...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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