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I've been Lovecraft curious for a while now. What's a good starting list of Lovecraft material to read?

>> No.15774803

You can seriously tell Lovecraft is the kind of guy that struggles to make eye contact.

>> No.15774808

>>15774773
Did you know Lovecraft was racist? Yeah...bet you're not so interested now, huh?

>> No.15774819

>>15774808
Yes I know. Don't care.

>> No.15774826

>>15774819
Whaaaaat ?! Dude wtf

>> No.15774835

>>15774773
Really enjoyed

> whisperer in the darkness
> Dunwitch horror
> call of Cthulhu


They are all short and accessible and very good

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>>15774819

>> No.15774876

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a good one, The Thing on the Doorstep too however The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was pretty incomprehensible .

>> No.15774885

I just started poking through my complete works book, starting with dagon. it seems to me like not the worst place to start, its one of his earliest works so it is perhaps less refined but its only 5 pages long and oozes atmosphere that he is famous for so it seems like an ok introduction

>> No.15774891

I always liked Rats in the Walls.

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>>15774876
Dream-Quest is a weird one not helped by its lack of chapter breaks. But it works when taken alongside his other fantasy works, especially Cats of Ulthar which is one of my favourites of his. The part in Dream-Quest where the cats jump to the moon to fight the slaver aliens is pure B-movie quality.

>> No.15774999

>>15774911
Based taste, the Dream Cycle is wonderful and, indeed, dreamlike

>> No.15775016

>>15774911
Do you know the ZOOGS ??

>> No.15775039

>>15774835
>>15774876
>>15774885
>>15774891
Thanks friends.

>> No.15775076

>>15774773
Best:

Shadow over Innsmouth
Mountains of Madness
Dunwich Horror
Rats in the Walls
Thing on the Doorstep
Cats of Ulthar

Worst:

Quest of Iranon
Under the Pyramids

>> No.15775628

>>15774773
Dagon, From beyond, Beyond the wall of sleep, Music of Erich Zann, Polaris.

>> No.15775656

I would start out with his shorter works. To me honestly the Dreamlands stories are the best.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/eo.aspx

This is one of the stories that hooked me as a kid. Rats in the Walls is a great one too.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/rw.aspx

For fans of Lovecraft I'd also strongly recommend Thomas Ligotti.

>> No.15775862

>>15774773
Read all of it, don’t be a soft womanish Rhinelander.

>> No.15776784

>>15774819
holy based

>> No.15777546

>>15774808
His racism is what made his horror so compelling. He creates a great mood of fear of the other and other ideas that draw greatly on his racism.

t. non-racist

>> No.15777557

>>15774773
My personal favorite of his is the nameless city. There’s something comfy in the narrative, you’ll see what I mean.

>> No.15777563

>>15774773
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Commemorative Edition

Title is self-explanatory.

>> No.15777565

>>15774885
Do you also have the book which the blue cover and it’s of a weird rubber texture?

>> No.15777566

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

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>>15777565
I have this one if thats what you mean

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He wrote one superlative essay
https://youtu.be/p3NIOY8sHH4?t=4737

>> No.15778160

Start with the complete fiction, then start collecting from the Hippocampus press.

>> No.15778180

>>15774773
The Music of Erich Zann

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>>15774808

>> No.15778363

was Lovecraft afraid of boats?

>> No.15778423

>>15778363
He generally feared the ocean and its abominable denizens lurking beneath squirming fathoms of tentacles.

>> No.15778426

>>15774773
The Outsider is also a great starting point

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>>15778311

>> No.15778574

Innsmouth is one of he most scary shit I ever read.

>> No.15779939

>>15777934
1:58:00 is when he gets into Robert W Chambers and The King in Yellow.

>> No.15779950

>>15775076
Quest of Iranon is top 5 you tasteless shit.

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>>15774773
Lovecraft popularized cosmic horror but Hidetaka Miyazaki perfected it. I would tell you to debate me but any debate on the matter is purely born from ignorance. Bloodborne is one of the best pieces of fiction ever conceived and it singlehandedly also convinced me that cosmic horror was never at its best in literature, nobody simply knew how to do it better elsewhere before. Videogames are the ultimate way to tap into your own agency and imagination and forcing you to directly not only confront but "seek" forbidden knowledge and realizations. You can have a true mystery when you are presented with digital imagery and rooms and tombs where you can't actually know what did the author quite intend with each terrible piece of iconography or the placing of each corpse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glP-gH_n3Yc