The Repairer of Reputations

(1895) I have the whole 'King in Yellow' collection sitting on my ereader... I really need to get around to reading it! This story is wonderfully weird - and disturbing on several levels. Set in a future 1920, the world has made several steps toward peace and stability. (I'm not sure I like them, an......more

Rating: 3.5 rounded up to 4 That was surprisingly unsettling and entertaining! I would have given it a full four stars, but the very beginning has a substantial dose of racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia in its exposition, which nearly turned me off. Thankfully, the rest of the story doesn't really......more

This was disturbing. A legalised suicide chamber. War on the horizon. Deterioration into madness.......more

Interesting short story with a fun gimmick(?) of a mentally unstable unreliable narrator blurring the lines between the cosmic horrors of the Hastur mythos and the delusions of a madman.......more

Horrifying (complimentary) genuinely a really great horror story Horrifying (derogatory) I don’t know why I expected the guy who inspired lovecraft to be a decent person I think I liked it more than the other classic horror short stories I read cuz I listened to the audio book while doing something......more