The Music of Erich Zann

This has always been one of the Lovecraft tales I liked best, and I recently learned that it was the only story of Lovecraft’s that Robert Aickman—the English master of modern terror—liked at all. I can see why. Aickman favored obliqueness and indirection in his tales of the uncanny, and for once, i......more

Great eerie story here! A first person narrator is listening to a viol player who's playing very strange notes and music. He tries to befriend with the sinister chap and finds himself in a very uncanny surrounding full of bizarre sounds and effects. What is going on in his room? Why does he never ag......more

A Lovecraft BR with great GR dweller, Craig :) A nice story, proper scary atmosphere, with a hint of madness. I'm struggling with my reads and I feel that Lovecraft is not getting proper attention from me as it should. I'm putting Lovecraft on hold for a bit. Sorry Craig. Note to self:......more

I'm tickled to say that this 1922 horror short story by H.P. Lovecraft doesn't use the word "eldritch," not even once. It does, however, have insane viol playing, the "blackness of space illimitable," and a strange, narrow street in Paris that, even though the narrator once lived there, can never be......more

"Aunque su música me mantenía despierto, había algo extraño en ella que me turbaba. No obstante ser yo escasamente conocedor de aquel arte, estaba convencido de que ninguna de sus armonías tenía nada que ver con la música que había oído hasta entonces, de lo que deduje que tenía que tratarse de un c......more