River McKee's Reviews> The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness

In The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness, I read the short story He. It is about this young man who hates walking during the day so he walks around at night. He does this every night until one night he meets this old man. He's wearing dark old clothes with a trench coat. The old man tells the young man to follow him, so he did and he followed him for a very long time in the dark. They continued walking until they both get to the old mans house and they go inside. Then the old man brings the young man up stairs into a room.
He lights a candle and starts telling the young man scary stories. Then the old man tells the young man to look outside the window. So he does and then the old man starts chanting and then the young man starts seeing very demonic things. The young man falls to the ground and starts screaming and the old man starts getting really mad at the young man and scratches him with his long old nails. Then the old man starts getting really scared. The young man realizes this and asks why are you getting scared. And he says they're coming for me.
I liked that the book was based a really long time ago when New York was first getting built. What I didn't like was that they spoke so different back then so it was hard to comprehend and read but it was a good read overall. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a suspenseful and kind of scary book.