The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft, by HP Lovecraft & Leslie S. Klinger

• Title: The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
• Author:  H.P. Lovecraft
• Editor/Annotator:  Leslie S. Klinger
• Borrowed from DC Public Library
• Started: 5/12/2015
• Finished: 6/28/2015

 
A rare swing & a miss by Klinger, in my opinion.  If you read through this blog you'll see nothing but praise for Klinger's other new annotated volumes on Holmes and Dracula, but this Lovecraft edition pales in comparison.
 
I'll start with a remark that might help explain my lack of enthusiasm -- I don't really like Lovecraft.  I don't find his stories fun, scary, interesting.  I've always struggled to read them and to maintain interest when doing so.
 
Having said that, I have always loved annotations, and in previous works Klinger's annotations were wonderful and really added to the stories.  Unfortunately it appears that Klinger isn't much of a fan of Lovecraft either, if his annotations are any indication.  These were dry, few and far between, and really did not add anything to the works.
 
I decided not to make separate entries for each story, but I'm going to list out those included so I have a note of them when running searches against this blog.  The stories included follow:

• Dagon
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• Herbert West: Reanimator
• The Nameless City
• The Hound
• The Festival
• The Unnamable
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Silver Key
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Colour Out of Space
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Shadow over Innsmouth
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Shadow Out of Time
• The Haunter of the Dark