Book Review: Beneath the Moors and Darker Places

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

[4 stars]

Beneath the Moors and Darker Places Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Brian Lumley
Class/Genre: Fiction Horror [Short Stories]
Tor, Feb 2002, $24.95, 384 pp.

Many horror novelists and filmmakers have tried to capture the essence of the Cthulhu mythos, but most fail even when the effort attempts to pay homage to Lovecraft. BENEATH THE MOORS AND DARKER PLACES succeeds in achieving the essence of Lovecraft’s works and paying respect to the master supernatural writer yet feels fresh. Brian Lumley includes a potent novella (BENEATH THE MOORS) not published since the 1970s (at least in the United States) and a new gripping ending to the powerful "Second Wish". The other seven stories are terse thrillers too. The reader has nine taut tales in which each one entertains the audience in a manner Lovecraft and other horror grandmasters would have been proud to claim authorship. Fans of Mr. Lumley (see Necroscope) or Mr. Lovecraft will relish this trip to darker places.

Harriet Klausner

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