Like most collections the stories here can be hit or miss. One thing that you will not miss out on is just how extensive Lovecraft's monstrous menagerie really is. When one hear's Lovecraft, one thinks of the old ones, Cthulhu, shoggoths and the like. One might not think of lizard people and many more out of this world oddities. 
 The authors' stories collected here do a good job of exploring the depths of Lovecraft's tortured imaginations of monsters and the mayhem they bring.