H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

I enjoyed this one but not as much as Cthulhu for beginners. That being said, this was the best that could be done with the source material. Unlike Cthulhu it's a story told by one person recalling an event where they were almost entirely alone - that in and of itself does not make for the most exciting story to read your child. Whereas in the short story you can get the gradual descent into madness of the alien landscape he was stuck in... in this it's just a dude walking around like "whoa, wacky!". There are a lot of Lovecraft stories out there, I hope to see more soon. Herbert West: Re-animator perhaps?

Humorous and well done. The Dr Seuss style is really entertaining.

I enjoy reading this book to my young son, and he enjoys listening to it, but not as much as The Call of Cthulhu for beginning readers. While the art and story on this book are as good, the writing isn't as varied as in The Call of Cthulhu. In Dr. Seuss books (which this is clearly inspired by), the rhyming structures are generally pretty varied, but in this book there's a very repetitive cadence that is consistent throughout the whole book so it turns into a bit of a drone. When reading aloud, it always feels like there is a lack of resolution to the sentence structures. It's as though they start to build to something, and then instead of resolving and moving in a new direction, they simply return back to where they started. Anyway, that said I love the art, the actual story content is very good even if the writing lets it down here a bit, and it's still miles beyond a lot of kids books I've read to my son.

I sit down and I get caught up in these stories

It's a book, it's styled like Dr. Sues.Not really for beginning readers and has elements of suicide.That all being said, I enjoyed it

I previously reviewed the Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers. That book is suitable for children. Perhaps not incredibly interesting for them, but not objectionable. It's not the case for this book; I wouldn't recommend it for children under 12 or 13 because of the subject matter. Otherwise, this is a fun and excellent version of Lovecraft's first pulp fiction. I def recommend this--for peeps who are *NOT* small children!

A Lovecraftian story with Seussian prose. It doesn’t get much better than that.

These are wonderful. I hope there are more to come!

Perfectly pulled off!