4,0
http://www.planocritico.com/critica-a-tumba-dagon-e-uma-reminiscencia-do-dr-samu... ( )

It is surprising how many of Lovecraft's signature themes are already fully evident in this, his first horror story. The nature of madness and reality, an inherited curse, seeking after forbidden knowledge, and a fated demise are all here. The narrator is very reminiscent of Hildred Castaigne from Robert Chambers' "The Repairer of Reputations" (in [b:The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories|129798|The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories|Robert W. Chambers|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1416873291s/129798.jpg|954927]), as well as many of Poe's madmen. However, Lovecraft adds an element; there is the strong suggestion that Jervas' madness springs from a true apprehension: that of his actual lineage and ultimate place, shall we say, in the scheme of things.

(Moved 2015 review to the individual work Sept. 2017 to make room to review the collection under its own entry.) ( )

Not bad, writing feels a bit archaic but translates the strange vibe well enough. ( )

"Sedibus ut saltem placidis in morte quiescam" (“En un lugar placentero, cuando muera, me sea dado descansar”) - Virgilio

Siguiendo con la continuación de los relatos cortos de H. P. Lovecraft, leemos La Tumba (The Tomb), la historia de Jervas Dudley, quien vivió siempre en esferas alejadas del mundo real y se siente obsesionado por una antigua cripta... ¿en qué punto la obsesión puede tornarse en locura? o ¿ acaso fue algo más?... ( )

The wild life of an 18th century bon vivant haunts a young man from the 1920s. ( )

Contains some of his earliest work, a few unfinished short fragments, and none of the major stories. Some are rather enjoyable though, my favourite being the Horror at Red Hook.
3 stars oc ( )

I am a champion of those tales which are consider'd E'ch-Pi-El's "minor" works because I find so many of them so peculiar and enchanting, playful and provocative. This paperback from Del Rey has an excellent sampling of Lovecraft's less familiar stories, and although I would not recommend this as a beginning place for those who are new to Lovecraft's Works, I can confess that I adore most of its Contents.

"The Festival" remains a keen favourite, and I love the atmosphere invested in the creation of Kingsport and its occult ways. The story is, unlike most of Lovecraft's tales, absolutely supernatural. "He" is another story of which I am fond, despite its slight expression of Lovecraft's wretched racism. Again, it is an excellent study in weird atmosphere, conjuring the weird mood of Outside otherness that Lovecraft felt to be a vital component in the weird tale. "The Strange High House in the Mist" is another tale set in mythic Kingsport.

The very early "The Alchemist" is, despite the youthfulness of its author, a rather good story. I never paid the story much attention until I listen'd to a reading of it online, during which I was completely captivated.

The fragments are my favourite portion of this slim collection. "Azathoth" is thought by some scholars to be an early experimental beginning for what eventually became "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath." "The Descendant" has long interested me, to the point where I sometimes fancy that I'd like to complete it--although I wou'd never tie my own byline to that of Lovecraft's. In his correspondence, Lovecraft mentions many such experiments with fiction that he has discarded and destroyed; and it makes me moan to think of the perhaps hundreds of such tidbits that we have lost because of HPL's habit of throwing away so much of his experiments in weird writing. "The Book" is very curious--a retelling in prose of the first three sonnets from FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH. The story was completed by another writer, and that version was included by Ramsey Campbell in his Arkham House anthology, NEW TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. "The Thing in the Moonlight" is not entirely by Lovecraft, being a letter that he wrote to Donald Wandrei describing a dream. The beginning and ending portions of the tale were added by another bloke when he published his extended version in his fanzine. Because the "story" is not entirely by Lovecraft and was never intended by him to be published, S. T. Joshi has removed it from all of his editions of Lovecraft's tales. ( )

http://moloch981.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/la-tomba/ ( )

More great stuff by the master, this volume includes a few great stories, as well as some smaller/incomplete pieces Lovecraft wrote in adolescence, and some items from his dreams that may have been become full stories one day. ( )

So I read some of these stories a long time ago and don't remember them and didn't write any comments. But for most of them I did. But I just finished the last story today so here are my comments.

Azathoth : 7.0 - Very nice. Mopey Lovecraft dreams about a man that is discontented with the world and reality.

He : 7.0 - A man "born in the wrong era" finds that New York haunts him. He meets someone who is actually from the colonial days but has stayed alive through magic. The man shows him the past but the man's enemies come and kill him. Loved the view of ancient earth.

Poetry and the Gods : 6.5 - My idea about beauty breaking down barriers to other realms, similar to Colin Wilson's book. In this one a woman reads poetry and it brings her in contact with the sleeping greek/roman gods and they tell of their imminent return and also that their prophets are poets. Milton, Shakespeare etc... None of the poetry did anything for me so it was kind of hard to relate on that level.

The Alchemist : 6.5 - Guy grows up in rotting old keep. His family has a curse that they die when they turn 32 because they killed an old alchemist. His son actually created eternal youth potion and has lived all these years to kill the ancestors. Standard.

The Beast in the Cave : 6.0 - One of Lovecraft's first. Not bad. Guy gets lost in tunnels, finds creature, turns out to be a man that looks like an ape.

The Book : - Pretty cool little piece. The incantations in the book push the reader through gateway after gateway.

The Descendant : 4.5 - Just a fragment that doesn't really go anywhere. Just the setup.

The Evil Clergyman : 5.5 - Short and not that good. Guys goes in to someone room, encounters his ghost and now looks like the old occupant.

The Horror at Red Hook : 7.5 - Different from most of the other stories. Cults in New York. Trip to hell. Lots of imagery. Pretty cool.

The Street : 7.5 - Totally different from any Lovecraft story I've ever read. I loved the way he told the history of the "Street". But then it seemed like his predjudice problem came out talking about the good anglos and the slant eyed foriegners.

The Thing in the Moonlight : 6.5 - Cool how he included himself in the story since he's such a scary figure.

The Transition of Juan Romero : 6.5 - Not sure why it's called a transition. He just went down in a mine and then died. The bottomless pit thing is scary though.

Imprisoned with the Pharaohs : 8.0 - Harry Hudinnis name, also Under the Prymids. Very cool

In the Walls of Eryx : ? - Don't remember.
The Festival : ? - Don't remember.
The Strange High House in the Mist : ? - Don't remember.
The Tomb : ? - Don't remember. ( )

This is a good collection of Lovecraft's work with some early fragments and two stories written as a teenager that are good, better than most of his adult ones. There is also a chronology of his works at the back. "Must rleads" are "The Strange High House in the Mist" and his only sci-fi story "In the Walls of Eryx". ( )

http://fireandsword.blogspot.com/2007/02/tomb-and-other-tales-by-h.html

This collection provides a look at Lovecraft’s early tales. It is a grab bag of HPL’s work, and shows some of the various directions he went in.