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The Dreams In The Witch House has always been a favorite of mine. I love the witch using math to bridge the dimensions, her furry, fanged familiar, Brown Jenkin with his nuzzling ways, and the visions of hyperspace travel . . . including a stop somewhere in space and time where we finally get to see the Old Ones from the Mountains of Madness as living creatures. Is the story flawless? Well, I don t know why Keziah balks at the sight of the crucifix, but Gilman does use its chain to strangle her! Perhaps she foresaw that; she is a witch after all! The depictions of hyperspace and the distortions of our characters when they travel through it tap into a stylistic place which I enjoy tremendously . . . though, alas, I seldom have an excuse to visit!
- Sales Rank: #1661515 in Books
- Published on: 2014-03-01
- Binding: Hardcover
- 66 pages
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An Excellent Edition of a So-So Story
By W. H. Pugmire
It's amusing to read S. T.'s excellent Introduction to this wee volume--because he must have felt inclined to say positive things about the story. I mean, you don't write an Introduction to a book you want to see sold and say therein, "This story rather sucks." Joshi is rather more upfront about ye story's flaws in AN H. P. LOVECRAFT ENCYCLOPEDIA: "While the tale contains vividly cosmic vistas of hyperspace, HPL does not appear to have thought out the details of the plot satisfactorily. What is the significance of the Old Ones in the story? To what purpose is the baby kidnapped and sacrificed? How can HPL the atheist allow Keziah to be frightened by the sight of a crucifix? Why does Nyarlathotep appear in the conventional figure of the Black Man? . . . It seems as if HPL were aiming merely for a succession of starling images without bothering to fuse them into a logical sequence."
I have never started to read a horror story with the hope that it will present a narrative of logic and realism. Yet "The Dreams in the Witch House" does seem rather a mess. Some have complained that the story is poorly written--but I find its prose as good as in many of Lovecraft's more successful tales. Let's take a look at the opening paragraph:
"Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gillman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like a thunder of artillery. At night the subtle stirring of the black city outside, the sinister scurrying of rats in wormy partitions, and the creaking of hidden timbers in the centuried house, were enough to give him a sense of strident pandemonium. The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound--and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter, noises which he suspected were lurking behind them."
I see that opening paragraph as near-perfect in setting mood and in introducing the personality of the tales main character. I don't see any evidence of the "overwriting" that Lovecraft's critics complain of; and I love the subtle hints of things that will blossom into full horrors as the tale progresses. I love the idea that strange unexplained sounds are somehow less threatening than "other, fainter, noises" that one may depict in times of near-quiet.
As it is so often in Lovecraft's weird fiction, the barrier betwixt reality and dream seems very thin indeed. When Gilman first sees the antique creature that he knows as Keziah she is like some thing spilled from his fantastic dreams rather than an object of solid reality, for he sees her as a "nebulous blur" which gradually resembles a woman he has sometimes seen lurking along the lanes near the wharves. Is this woman real, and does anyone else actually see her( other than demented Joe; & it's questionable if he actually has seen her or is merely influenced by her legend)? Or is he so steeped in Arkham's dark witch-town legend that he has learned of her, is intrigued by her legend, and then conjures an aspect of her through his supernatural dreaming? We cannot be certain, and that mystery is one of the great Lovecraftian features of the tale.
The story has its defenders, the most eloquent and intelligent being Fritz Leiber, whose magnificent essay is published following the story text. There is also a Foreword by Stuart Gordon, who filmed the story for Showtime's MASTERS OF HORROR series. The illustrations by the fabulous Pete Von Sholly are, for the most part, excellent--although one or two of them seem rather a bit over-ye-top in their depiction of the witch, Keziah (although she is faithfully render'd as Lovecraft depicted her, and that depiction by Lovecraft is, for me, one of ye flaws of the story, being a cliche.) There is one magnificent illustration, on page 31, of Nyarlathotep--very effective. Nyarlathotep is my favourite of Lovecraft's entities, and I have always been extremely dismay'd at how he is presented in this story, in which he serves no interesting function.
Despite it's flaws, the story is one that I can return to and enjoy as entertainment. But it doesn't thrill me with awe as do stories such as "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Colour out of Space." It doesn't completely captivate me as does "Pickman's Model" and "The Hound". However, it is unlike anything else that Lovecraft wrote, and in its clumsy way is still original and, at moments, effective. This illustrated volume is the finest representation of the story that I have ever seen, and is a MUST for anyone who is a fan of the tale.
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