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Thiago
Nov 10, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: horror, lovecraftian
This novella is a reimagining of one of H. P. Lovecraft’s weakest tales, “The Horror at Red Hook. The author, Victor Lavalle, greatly improves it. I felt it was great, simply perfect.

First, he takes what was a generic (not part of the Mythos, the main baddie was Lilith), rambling story and makes it part of the Mythos, here we have not Lilith, but Great Cthulhu.

Secondly, we get to have a black person as the main character in a Lovecraft story, LaValle takes one of “those blacks” Lovecraft gleef
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OZZY
Jan 03, 2024 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
"[...] a realidade de um homem rico é recriada a seu bel-prazer."

Esse livro me lembrou muito "História do Cerco de Lisboa" do Saramago, um dos temas daquele livro é justamente como a narrativa de acontecimentos históricos é normalmente comandada e contada do ponto de vista da parcela da população que está/estava no comando.
O conto original de Lovecraft, que é adicionado no final dessa edição, é apenas um surto de um homem ignorante, contando de teorias da conspiração sobre a ameaça da presença
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Lanko
May 04, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2016
I didn't know what I was delving into. The book has a dedicatory to H.P. Lovecraft. Then starts and it looks like a mix of Realism/Urban Fantasy.

And then we see why it has a dedicatory to Lovecraft. Damn, that was good, really good, a worthy tribute, with even some improvements.

First, it has dialogue and character development, which Lovecraft never bothered with as he was pretty bad at it. And even has small tidbits of humor here and there (Norwegian babies? Hah)
It also happens in a major city (
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Paulo Vinicius Figueiredo dos Santos
Chega a ser impressionante o quanto Lovecraft é influente na escrita de terror até os dias de hoje. O quanto seus contos foram aproveitados e reaproveitados embora a essência continue sendo a mesma. Victor LaValle fez uma releitura intrigante e repleta de surpresas de Horror em Red Hook. Ele se aproveita até da ambientação criada por Lovecraft e cria algo só seu. Não à toa a novela foi muito premiada.

Horror em Red Hook é um dos contos mais complicados para se analisar do clássico autor de terror
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Tainá Hilaricki
Aquela sequência do porão vei, eu ainda estou tremendo.
Pedro Schoola
Apr 16, 2016 marked it as to-read
Antonio Pontes
Jun 13, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2017
Veronica
Aug 06, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: lovecraftian
Rafael Lohmann
Dec 30, 2018 rated it really liked it
Raquel V
Jan 20, 2019 marked it as to-read
Thomas Leonardo
Jul 24, 2019 marked it as to-read
Rodrigo de Caro
Aug 05, 2019 marked it as to-read