Tales of the Al-Azif: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology

First I must establish I have an affinity for all things O.P.(If you haven’t read Scavengers, Crazy Horses and Six Gun Serenade, all of which are part of the Dark Trails Saga, then I highly recommend that you do) and okay, so I’ve only read A Manuscript Found in Carcosa thus far, but if Manuscript is indicative to the rest of the stories, I’m sure I’ll enjoy them as well, and so far as I’m reading The Skull on the Desk, it is good, even if Ol’ Port isn’t in it.Ending with words of wisdom from Porter, “If a man can’t take care of his horses, how do you suppose he is gonna take care of anything else?”

A series of interlinked tales about so called 'book' behind the Necronomicon and the chaos it inflicted through the ages, starting with Abdul Alhazred himself and ending on a blasted, dying earth. Mostly pretty good.

This is a collection of stories all interwoven with the Al-Azif book. The way that all of the various stories have little hints and nods that tell you it's a vast shared world.Note- the stories are almost all taken from a number of the writers' different series', but I personally had only read C.T Phipps Booth. Which also turned put to be my favorite of the all the stories.If you like well written Lovecraftian stories, this book is definitely for you!

15% awesome stories, 25% good to very good stories, and 60% ranging from “It was alright, entertaining enough” to “I’m not sure what they were going for there” down to “This feels like padding”.

Hello, these are some really great stories. Very well written and entertaining to read. Most would make a fine novel. Thanks.

You can't go wrong with C. T. Phipps. He's just good like that. If you like this, please check out Cthulhu Armageddon!

When I first started reading the Cthulhu Mythos stories; that did not start with Lovecraft, by the way, they had a deep emotional impact on me, and I thought; this was this is more than just Horror, this is more than science fiction, this is crazy nonsense that seems to have a ring of truth to it !!!I have often thought that if I ever become president, I'm going to have a huge Cthulhu statue erected in the chapel --- ( ? )But anyways; it's been quite a while since I read Cthulhu Mythos story that struck that same cord that I originally experienced...

Outstanding addition to the HPL canon. Awesome book. Although all the stories have a slightly different feel and spin, they all hang together as a coherent narrative. Also, wonderful as always to see Mr. Harry Stubbs.

Al Azif wird oft mit dem sagenhaften Necronomicon gleich gesetzt.Laut den Autoren dieser Anthologie ist das aber nicht so. Al Azif wurde von Abdul Alhazred lange vor dem Necronomicon entdeckt, und ist kein Buch (auch wenn es so aussieht), sondern eher ein Speicher fremder Seelen, die nichts mehr wünschen, als eine neue Heimat zu finden..auch wenn die Menschheit dabei vernichtet wird. Warum und wieso, das erklären die Stories dieses Bandes, auch wenn sie etwas altbacken scheinen, und mehr an August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith und Robert E. Howard erinnern, als an Tim Curran und Brian Lumley.Trotzderm lesenswert, nicht nur für Lovecraft-Fans...

This book is more a book of adventures rather than horrors. It uses the Cthulhu mythos as a mere prop.

I only bought it for the Harry Stubbs story by David Hambling. It was up to it's usual high, interesting and engaging standard.I haven't (yet) read any of the other stories but the Harry story makes it a worthwhile purchase.

Mit dem Titel ist eigentlich schon alles gesagt. Die Geschichten sind schwach und kein bisschen spannend oder aufregend.

Great story-telling and I Iove the idea of the Mad Arab first-person introducing himself as the authority for the rest of the tales concerning the real book’s travels through the hands, claws and pseudopodia of the unworthy.Agree though, enough grammar and proof-reading errors to spoil it - a bit like paying to see an HD film and it having fuzzy blips every few minutes.If I’d written one of these stories and it was presented like this I’d be incandescent.