What is your favourite Lovecraft's work?

[Anonymous No.15439572]

[Anonymous No.15439607]

>>15439572
That wordy one with the creepy vibe.

[Anonymous No.15439947]

>>15439572
The Colour from Outer Space is a good one, Lovecraft even thought it was his best. It's got more of a campfire vibe than the ones involving ancient gods and such.

[Anonymous No.15440011]

>>15439572
The Colour out of Space, The Outsider or Dagon

[Anonymous No.15440041]

>>15439572
The letters he sent to Clark Ashton Smith.

[Anonymous No.15440050]

For me, it's The Dreams in the Witch House if only because the lovecraftian horrors appearing in your room is more terrifying than encountering them in some remote corner of the world where you purposefully have to search for them

[Anonymous No.15440088]

>>15439572
Rats in the walls. Yeah, that’s the one.

[Anonymous No.15441405]

>>15440041
This

[Anonymous No.15442536]

>>15439572

At the Mountains of Madness.

[Anonymous No.15442544]

>>15439572
I like the ones about the dreamworld a lot. The Quest of Iranon is maybe the sadest and most regretful thing he's ever written. I alos like the one that is basically a dream he transcribed while not completely awake yet.

[Anonymous No.15443640]

My favorite changes over time, but The Whisperer in Darkness and The Haunter of the Dark are two of my favorites that never get mentioned. The Whisperer in Darkness especially. First exposure to it was as an audiobook while driving through a national forest in the dead of night. The tension was incredible.

[Anonymous No.15443685]

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.

[Anonymous No.15443696]

>>15442544
His dreamlands stuff is really where his skills as a writer shined, i wish he lived longer to develop that world more.

[Anonymous No.15443780]

>>15439572
The Hound, The Temple, From Beyond, Arthur Jermyn, and more.

[Anonymous No.15444256]

The colour out of space
The thing at the doorstep
The music of eric zann

[Anonymous No.15444310]

>>15439572
Out Of The Eons and the Crawling Chaos.
>>15443685
Based and insanepilled

[Anonymous No.15445176]

>>15439572
Mine is the one about the O MY GOD I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE IT I'M GOOOIING INSANE AAAAAHAAAAHJAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.15445191]

The Shadow Out of Time.

[Anonymous No.15445199]

>>15439572
My favorite one is about the

[Anonymous No.15445278]

>>15439572
Memory.
And Nyarlyathotep.
And they're both coming true.

[Anonymous No.15445666]

>>15440041
where can I find them?

[Anonymous No.15445674]

>>15439607
The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward

[Anonymous No.15445882]

The essay Houellebecq wrote on him: Against the World, Against Life.

[Anonymous No.15445905]

>>15439572
Beyond the Wall of Sleep or Celephais.

[Anonymous No.15445906]

I always remember the submarine one. I picked up an audio book of half his collected works and it kinda all started to bleed together. There’s a dude, he does some science, he explored a thing, it slowly starts to go wrong, then there’s a big thing/building/monster, he either disappeared or got eaten or goes mad.

[Anonymous No.15446013]

>>15439572
I liked the Doom That Came to Sarnath because Sarnath sounded cool

[Anonymous No.15446689]

>>15443780
The temple is amazing and is never mentioned

[Anonymous No.15446721]

>>15439572
Providence in 2000 A.D.

[Anonymous No.15446782]

>>15439572
Obviously this one

[Anonymous No.15447006]

>>15446782
>Look guys, I'm posting racist things on 4chan xD

[Anonymous No.15448175]

the shadow over time
the whisperer in the darkness
beyond the wall of sleep
azatoth
The Statement of Randolph Carter
fungi from yuggoth

the others are very overrated when these are his true best. i like cthulhu too

[Anonymous No.15448186]

>>15439572
Call of chtulu is the first one I read and still my favorite one. Am I a normie?

[Anonymous No.15448202]

>>15440041
>read the CAS correspondence
>see the familiar, joyful and polite friendship between the men
>watch his depression as Howard shoots himself and Lovecraft dies of cancer soon after

[Anonymous No.15448205]

>>15439572
read one work by lovecraft, you read 'em all. he's boring and repetitive and frankly deserves nothing more than the status of a pulp story author

[Anonymous No.15448208]

From what i've read:
>Polaris
>Beyond the Wall of Sleep
>The Picture in the House
>Nyarlathotep
>From Beyond
and maybe The Doom That Came to Sarnath stood out. Also, Ex Oblivione was one of the most explicitly emotional stories of his, although it hadn't much scope or scale.

[Anonymous No.15448217]

>>15445906
I found this story very amusing, it was a nazi submarine officer written exactly and ridiculously as you would think Lovecraft would write one

[Anonymous No.15448650]

>>15448186
Normies don’t read anon. They just like Cthulhu for the image search results.

[Anonymous No.15449141]

beginning of dunwhich horror reads like a spooky ken burns documentary so I always liked it.

[Anonymous No.15450440]

>>15439572
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
From Beyond
The Call of Cthulhu
Dagon
The Shadow Out of Time

[Anonymous No.15450461]

>>15448208
>From Beyond

You rock.

[Anonymous No.15450494]

The dream cycle stuff

[Anonymous No.15450497]

Any good 'lovecraftian' work not written by him?

[Anonymous No.15450576]

>>15445176
baste

[Anonymous No.15450623]

>>15450497
Thomas Ligotti is known on this board for making Conspiracy Against The Human Race but he go his start in cosmic horror I think
I don't remember who wrote House On The Borderland, but it was ok too.

[Anonymous No.15450704]

>>15450623
>House On The Borderland
pic related is the quality change of that book
>Conspiracy Against The Human Race
Is the dialogue any good, or is it also Lovecraftian?

[Anonymous No.15450866]

Dream Quest, Witch House, and Charles Dexter Ward

[Anonymous No.15450911]

>>15450497
The Holy Bible

[Anonymous No.15450944]

>>15450704
Conspiracy just feels like Ligotti shitting on every school of thought and telling us to die virgins desu.
Only other book of his I read was Songs of A Dead Dreamer tho, so I'm not the best judge.
Liked the pic, thanks

[Anonymous No.15451024]

>>15439572
The Dunwich Horror. It's filled with so many great moments. And it's one of the few stories where the people actually try to battle the thing, although simply existing in his universe means you lose i still greatly enjoyed the spirit.

[Anonymous No.15451166]

>>15450623
william hope hodgesson wrote house on the borderlands

[Anonymous No.15451390]

>>15439572
At the Mountains of Madness

I really like Antarctica so I am biased but still I think its one of his more sleeper hits.

[Anonymous No.15451399]

>>15450497
the croning by laird barron

[Anonymous No.15452998]

The wax museum. If only because an old girlfriend showed it to me.

[Anonymous No.15454401]

>>15439572
The Last Test

[Anonymous No.15454420]

can anyone rec/share audiobooks of his best shit?

[Anonymous No.15454460]

>>15439572
Arthur Jermyn et al. Mostly because whenever someone says "Lovecraft is racist" I go on a spiel about how Lovecraft was actually fascinated by Africa and niggers, and how important a role they play in so much of his work.

[Anonymous No.15454717]

herbert west - reanimator, the dunwich horror and at the mountains of madness

[Anonymous No.15455835]

bump

[Anonymous No.15456031]

>>15454460
One of the greatest injustices of our time is the malignment of aristocratic racial attitude and the patchy strawman of lumpenprole racism. These people will call Conrad and Melville “racist”, wholly uncomprehending that racial mindset can defer from crude bigotry or the abject neoliberalism to which they are totally enslaved

[Anonymous No.15456326]

>>15447006
Stormfront shout have never shut down. it worked wonders as a containment site for these fucking retards that fell for the asinine "4chan; neo-nazi site" narrative. I want these people to leave this website so goddamned bad.

[Anonymous No.15456337]

>>15439572
Not even a racist but that one about the creation of niggers was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.15456349]

>>15456326
Nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger

[Anonymous No.15457491]

>>15456031
>NO NO NO ANYTHING ANYONE DID BEFORE THE 1960S IS EVIL BECAUSE MY WESTERN LIT PROFESSOR TOLD ME SO AND IT'S OUR DUTY TO ACTIVELY SPITE DEAD WRITERS EVERY SINGLE TIME THEIR NAMES COME UP SO BLACK PEOPLE CAN READ BOOKS THAT WEREN'T WRITTEN FOR THEM WITHOUT FEELING LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THEIR GRANDPARENTS WERE EVEN BORN

[Anonymous No.15457552]

>>15454460
why do you remotely feel like racism has to be defended? the notion that you must defend racism from its detractors is essentially a concession that it is negative

[Anonymous No.15457817]

What is the most underrated Lovecraft work?

I think Dreams in the Witch House gets too much criticism. I also unironically quite like The Street

[Anonymous No.15457940]

>>15457817
Polaris

[Anonymous No.15458571]

>>15457552
Because inevitably when I'm discussing Lovecraft IRL, the college-lib I'm speaking with says "he was super racist" as though it were the last thing that need be said.
I do, technically, think racism is bad, but I'm trying to get them to understand that A. Racism was normal at the time, and B. Lovecraft only seems racist today because he spoke about Africans in his work, in a way that was originally considered normal. I bet people asked him, "why are you writing another story about niggers", and he'd say "I'm fascinated by them." If you asked Edgar Allen Poe his opinion on Africans, he'd probably say "oh niggers are disgusting, let's talk about something else."

[Anonymous No.15458642]

>>15450911

[Anonymous No.15458656]

>>15454460
Whenever someone tells me Lovecraft was racist my usual response is 'I know, that's why I like him'

[Anonymous No.15459818]

bump

[Anonymous No.15459929]

>>15458656
Absolutely based

[Anonymous No.15459941]

>>15457817
It’s absurd to the degree of which he sounds like a 4chan user. I’ve read some of his correspondences and he 100% would post on /pol/. He was also a complete social misfit.