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Although a HUGE, lifelong fan of horror fiction, I'll be the first to admit that my resume is extremely limited in regards to the old classics. I just barely got through FRANKENSTEIN & DRACULA as a kid & although I tried to be well rounded by working my way through some of the other seminal classics of the genre, I just never could seem to get interested in the archaic writing styles & the turgid pacing of the vast majority of the "old masters". They just didn't "work" for me.
But, the one "old timer" whose work I DID take to & quickly grow to love & admire, was Lovecraft's. Although still not yet a completest of his work, I have read most of it ( some of his stories SEVERAL times ) & I definitely have my favorites.
#1 on my H.P.L. list is DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE. So much so that my two beloved pets are a cat named Keziah Mason & a black rat named Brown Jenkin.
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