/lit/ - Literature

Is HP Lovecraft worth reading?

I know this is going to sound super cringey, but I recently played through the game Bloodborne and I loved its story and themes, and I've read that a lot of it draws heavily from HP Lovecraft.

Never read anything by him before, and in fact, I don't think I've ever read a horror book before. I read a lot of Philip K Dick, Alfred Bester, Clarke, Asimov, and some other fantasy/sci-fi authors that are all much more contemporary. I don't think I've ever read anything older than Tolkien.