The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

I think I learned a lesson with this collection. Never read a complete works by any author. After a while, you see the flaws. I found the same words and phrases used over and over again. Lovecraft's approach to horror is to not describe it in too much detail, but to use words like horror and terror repeatedly. I guess he leaves it to the reader's imagination, but by the last story in this collection, I was tired of it. I felt like the only differences between the stories were the settings. Okay, so not all the stories were repetitive, but the Cthulhu mythos stories got old after a while. I have to say I was disappointed, but perhaps it was my fault in reading sixty-eight stories consecutively.

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