Medusa's Coil

By H.P. Lovecraft

What would you get if you mixed Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King? The answer might be something resembling Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft (1890-1937), an extremely influential poet and author who mixed science fiction, horror and fantasy into a subgenre known as weird fiction. Perhaps none encapsulates weird fiction like his creation of the monster Cthulhu, which has been used by other writers to spawn a fictional universe and mythology centered around Cthulhu.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781475308044

H.P. Lovecraft

Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).

Reviews for Medusa's Coil

[aneris-3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Medusa's Coil by Lovecraft and Zaelia Bishop is a story set in rural Missouri.

An unnamed narrator gets lost somewhere in Missouri and finds shelter in a decrepit house. The man who lives there is very old and he tells the narrator the story of his family's doom. It's cosmic horror combined with a tragic family story.
I would have liked it a bit more if not for the last line. The revelations before that were enough to make this a great story. That line, though, dumbed down the whole thing (and I am being nice here).
Still, it is one of Lovecraft's stories I wouldn't mind revising.