Phil Baker finds Michel Houellebecq's take on HP Lovecraft, "Against the World, Against Life", to be a brilliant reassessment of a truly great bad writer
Link: Observer Book Review
It looks good, that.
The Guardian published an extract a while back
Link: The Myth Maker
http://io9.com/5412319/beautiful-and-terrifying-creatures-from-the-edge-of-light/gallery/ (http://io9.com/5412319/beautiful-and-terrifying-creatures-from-the-edge-of-light/gallery/)
I did a Halloween post on MetaFilter with a whole bunch of HP Lovecraft links people might like:
http://www.metafilter.com/86277/The-Lurking-Fear
I particularly recommend the weekly HP Lovecraft Literary podcast:
http://blog.hppodcraft.com/
It should be noted that this book is bulked out with reprints of both Call of Cthulhu and Whisperer in Darkness.
If you enjoy this, may I suggest taking a look at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Fall-Cthulhu-Mythos/dp/0978991184
Because it was the first time I came across the word, I always read Lovecraft with a Metallica soundtrack....
Good links there. The stars are right... 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_ZE_ib9Wk
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