" I, Cthulhu" is a short humorous story by fantasy author Neil Gaiman featuring H. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.Humor, Lovecraftian horror, Fan fiction short story Conclusion: This is a buy, but only if you are already a fan of the C'thulhu Mythos. My only issue was that the narration was generally recorded at a lower volume level than was ideal. The narrators both handled their jobs well and the sheer variety of tales allowed them to show off their chops. On the whole this collection is well worth reading, but there are a couple of stories one shouldn't feel guilty about skipping. It is baffling that they were included at all. The last 10% not only wildly miss the mark, but seem poorly written, executed, and wholly unaware of the ideas behind the C'thulu mythos. Another 15% or so make a good attempt at it, but just don't quite hit the mark. About 75% of the tales here squarely hit the mark, delivering on what would expect of tales regarding the Old Ones.
This book has, roughly, about 25 short stories. The editor of the work, in a forward, claims that this is the best of this kind of fiction currently written. This is a collection of modern writing purportedly written in the style of H. I recently finished listening to the Book of C'thulhu Tales. I do know that while I enjoyed The collection, I had to give it 100% of my focus and not simply have it on in the background. That sounds like a lot to describe something insignificant, but multiple times I was wondering where characters had disappeared to, when in fact a while new story had started. One might also say that a lot of the time a story didn't end with a certain amount of aural finality for lack of a better term, or a new title to a new story was read with any different emphasis. But clearly, as a track ended a story, there was no breath or ending space before the next element began. I don't know if that's a result of how the Audible playing software goes from track to track or chapter to chapter, or if say an MP3 CD would've yielded the same result, or even an audio cd.
What I did notice however, was that one story would roll right into the next, and if they were both done by the same narrator it was hard to tell the story had even stopped and the new one had started. With two narrators there was some nice variety between a female protagonist and a male protagonist from story to story. I don't know if this is more a comment about the Audible playing software, the production itself, or the performances. Hard to tell with one story stopped and the next one started.
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