SOURCE: Feingold, Michael. “Lovecraft's Unliterary Terrors.” Village Voice 30, no. 12 (19 March 1985): 45.

In the following review of The Dunwich Horror and Others, Feingold asserts that the sixteen stories in this collection are good as horror stories but hold no other significant literary merit.

To know H. P. Lovecraft's stories is to know fear, but not literature. Which would be no problem if his devotees didn't insist on trying to promote him to some kind of dignified literary status. In this handsome new edition of the 16 short stories that are Lovecraft's claim to fame [The Dunwich Horror and Others], he gets the Grand Master treatment: S. T. Joshi has re-edited the texts, collating Lovecraft's mss. with the original magazine publications, and Robert Bloch's introduction tries to defend the old horror-monger against charges ranging from racism to triviality, without much success. In addition, Bloch makes grandiose claims for Lovecraft's standing in the...