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The Trail of Cthulhu (Mass Market Paperback)

by August Derleth (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc (Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786703415
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786703418
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,444,339 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars That is not dead which can eternally produce sequels..., 8 May 2007
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The stars are coming into alignment and the time draws near for Cthulhu to break free of his underwater prison R'lyeh, so Dr Laban Shrewsbury gathers together a number of like-minded men to attempt to locate and destory the Great Old One once and for all...

The very best sequels enrich and expand on the original tale, while the very worst are so inept they positively ruin everything worthwhile in the original. 'The Trail of Cthulhu' runs the middle-ground between the two, being one of those unadventurous sequels content to offer more of the same without ever attempting anything unexpected. As such Derleth here revisits H.P. Lovecraft's 'Shadows Over Innsmouth', 'The Nameless City' and 'The Call of Cthulhu' but seems content merely to provide retreads of past stories. The novel is also fairly repetetive due to it originally being published as five seperate short stories, which means five different recruits to Dr Shrewsbury's quest, and five Cthulhu Mythos recaps. Again, this isn't a particularly bad novel - it just doesn't offer anything new -'The Trail of Cthulhu' doesn't enrich or add to Lovecraft's work, it just offers more of the same old stories. Readers who have read all of Lovecraft's own work and are still aching for a fix of Cthulhu will find this fills a hole, but 250 pages later I can't help but feel Dr Shrewsbury's quest is entirely inconsequential. Not terrible, but utterly innessential.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Mythos story. One of the best I have read., 26 April 2001
Having read a lot of Cthulhu mythos stories, most of which are by H.P. Lovecraft himself, I have come to believe that this is one of the best written. The scope of the story is huge, and is well written. Derleth successfully weaves a set of seemingly disjointed stories into one continous and interellated tale - 50+ years before Tarantino does!

If you are going to read one of the Mythos stories then this is definitely one to read.

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