Review – Necronomicon

Here we have the usual vignettes with a wrap-around, this time taking advantage of three short stories by H.P. Lovecraft. The bracket features a bit of fiction in which Lovecraft leafs through the pages of his dreaded imaginary book, the Necronomicon. The main features are, predictably enough, stories he reads in the book. I suppose Lovecraft purists won’t think much of the insertion of modern issues like single motherhood, abortion and the like into the mix. Even so, there’s a lot more of the so-called “Cthulhu mythos” to be found here than in most other adaptations of Lovecraft’s work that I’ve seen. Some of the gore gets a little silly (not to mention cheap), but it’s the thought that counts. Mildly amusing