/lit/ - Literature

So I finally picked up H.P. Lovecraft The Complete Fiction from B&N @ $20. Great buy. I have only read The Color and a few others before. Should I just read it in order or should I start off with a select few to get the feel goin'?

>>3019102

So /lit/, I read "Mountains of Madness" and loved it. Where do i go next with Lovecraft?

Lovecraft.

Where should I start.

i'm about to start reading this man after having acquired his complete works.

Where should I start and what should be expected?

Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and the local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown – the shadow-haunted Outside – we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold.

>>476853
thank you!
I'm glad you made the effort