I hadn't read that largish story by Lovecraft. Now i did, but i wish i didn't. Because it was a let down 
It started ok, first chapter was promising, actually. But it quickly turned into something without a center or focus, and really piling on the chapters of allusion, and not that interesting allusion at that.
It is about some lobster people from outer space. More sci-fi than Lovecraft's average story, it has a number of not good ideas (brains moved around in cylinders, and connected to devises so as to sense and speak), and (even worse) some terribly tongue-in-cheek para-mythology, even having a reference to "atlantian high priest Klarkash-Ton" (he means his friend and writer of that Tarzan stuffs, Clark Ashton Smith).
The story was written partly due to the recent naming/discovery of the planet Pluto, which in the story is hinted as being a colony of those aliens.
Considering how Lovecraft was critical of his works, it is surprising this poor story was published by him (i suppose at the usual magazine?). That said, most of his works (at least of this length) suffer from massive bleeding out of badly cooked crab waiting to be put out of its misery.
Have you read this story? And what do you think of it?
It started ok, first chapter was promising, actually. But it quickly turned into something without a center or focus, and really piling on the chapters of allusion, and not that interesting allusion at that.
It is about some lobster people from outer space. More sci-fi than Lovecraft's average story, it has a number of not good ideas (brains moved around in cylinders, and connected to devises so as to sense and speak), and (even worse) some terribly tongue-in-cheek para-mythology, even having a reference to "atlantian high priest Klarkash-Ton" (he means his friend and writer of that Tarzan stuffs, Clark Ashton Smith).
The story was written partly due to the recent naming/discovery of the planet Pluto, which in the story is hinted as being a colony of those aliens.
Considering how Lovecraft was critical of his works, it is surprising this poor story was published by him (i suppose at the usual magazine?). That said, most of his works (at least of this length) suffer from massive bleeding out of badly cooked crab waiting to be put out of its misery.
Have you read this story? And what do you think of it?
