This pitch-perfect tone begins with the opening paragraph of John Ashmead’s introduction, with its absolutely straight-faced account of his attempts to access the seventeenth-century copy of the Necronomicon purportedly held at Harvard’s Weidener Library and holds true through the ironic Biblical paraphrase that is the final line of Robert M. And in many senses, the absurd is closely akin to the horrific. They take it so seriously as to border perilously-but never gratuitously-on the absurd. Not that the stories do not take Lovecraft’s worldview seriously. Working from this premise, the editors have assembled the most appropriately comedic perspectives on Lovecraft and his horrors that I have ever read. Tales from the Miskatonic University Library is an anthology collecting two highly insightful introductions and thirteen stories (a lucky number, in this case) that touch in one way or another upon a rarely discussed topic in Lovecraftiana: Just how safe is the Special Collections section of that obscure university in the small town of Arkham, Massachusetts? After all, it contains some of the most dangerous volumes in the cosmos. Tales from the Miskatonic University Libraryĭarrell Schweitzer and John Ashmead, Editors
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