/lit/ - Literature

So yesterday I posted I was about to read pic related for the first time (I used a different picture before, I thought this book was a little cringle, things you do as a teenager)

Well I've read Dagon, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The doom that came to Sarnath and the Cats of Ulthar

And so far I've really enjoyed it. Starting with Dagon, I thought it was a little weak. It weird then that this is the first story in the book. It has a very cosmic horror feel but the story doesn't really go anywhere. If I were the guy I'd chalk up the whole experience as a crazy fever dream and not some impossible realization.

Second is The Statement of Randolph Carter. This one was my favorite. Its pretty short so if you have 5 minutes I'd recommend reading it. It really simple, has a nice spooky ending, and unlike Dagon if the events of the story happened to me I'd be left always feeling curious about it.

Third is The doom that came to Sarnath. I enjoyed this one a bit. It's very middle of the road. I can kind of see how it's loosely linked to Dagon, but tells a much more interesting story. Over all enjoyable but average.

Finally, The Cats of Ulthar. Another really sort story (something like 3 pages long). Its got a bit of a Roald Dahl Kiss Kiss vibe to it which I enjoyed. It also follows the trend of alien cities. This was something I wasn't expecting as I thought Lovecraft was more about impossible monster god and forbidden knowledge. Just goes to show what pop culture can do to something.

Anyway, what are other peoples thoughts and feeling on the works of H.P Lovecraft?

>>5047066
That's what I said nigger.

Hello /lit/, I have never really sat down and read a book since I was a mid-teenager reading "A series of unfortunate events" and recently my friend gave me a copy of The H.P. Lovecraft Necronomicon, I've never been much into the whole "old gods" thing and that but is it a good read at all? It's a fairly thick book by my standards and I want to know If I should bother reading it all the way through.

And one more question from what I have read I've noticed the heavy overuse of "and" for example, I'll use a line from a random page:
"And in most of the palaces the floors were mosaics of beryl and lapis lazuli and sardonyx and carbuncle and other choice materials"
Shouldn't it be written "And in most of the palaces the floors were mosaics of beryl, lapis lazuli, sardonyx, carbuncle and other choice materials"? or is this normal for early 1900s literature?

Apologies for the possibly painful new, I don't know how you lot are as a board, but I assume you aren't horrible. Thanks in advance.

>>2686907
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY BRAIN AT 6AM

Both. I think that's why that happened.

>>2686888
Those are all novellas and short stories. You can almost always get them in anthologies or collections, the biggest one I see these days is the HP Lovecraft Necronomicon, pictured. They're freely available online though, if you have an ereader, or don't mind reading off a website.

There are also some pretty good Lovecraft audiobooks/radio plays, if you have a decent English vocabulary and won't be annoyed by the dense, dry, wordy prose, and the inability to look it up. I like Wayne June, personally.

Any H.P. Lovecraft fans in here?
Is this bundle worth buying?