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I have never read any of his work before but the idea of cosmic horror sounds very interesting to me. What should I read first, anons?

>> No.16302787
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg

Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!
They will return: mankind will learn
New kinds of fear when they are here
They will reclaim all in their name
Hopes turn to black when they come back
Ignorant fools, mankind now rules
Where they ruled then: it's theirs again

Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning
Bode a returning season of doom

Scary scary scary scary solstice
Very very very scary solstice

Up from the sea, from underground
Down from the sky, they're all around
They will return: mankind will learn
New kinds of fear when they are here

Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!
Madness will reign, terror and pain
Woes without end where they extend
Ignorant fools, mankind now rules
Where they ruled then: it's theirs again

Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning
Bode a returning season of doom

Scary scary scary scary solstice
Very very very scary solstice

Up from the sea, from underground
Down from the sky, they're all around

Fear

Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars now are right

They will return

>> No.16302804

>>16302693
the colour out of space, probably.

>> No.16302815

>>16302693
Any order is OK, his work is very chaotic anyway. You read it because of the experience, not because you are forming a cohesive universe with every book
You can start with the famous ones (Call of Cthullu, The thing from the stars, Shadow over Innsmouth) and then go for the more obscure stuff, or you can read it in chronological order, or anything you can get your hands on

>> No.16302821

>>16302693
My first was The Wisperer in the darkness. I liked it but my favorite was probably the Dunwitch Horror

>> No.16302822
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>>16302693

>> No.16303387

>>16302787
kekd at image name

>> No.16303512

I'd recommend chronological order, along with a "Cthulhu Mythos" story when you want something more lengthy. The Call of Cthulhu, The Color Out of Space, The Shadow over Innsmouth , The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness and At The Mountain of Madness. I believe that's the chronological release order of his most famous Mythos/Old God stuff. I'm sure you know already most of his work is short stories and even the Mythos stuff isn't some tightly interconnected canon so don't worry too much about that. So if you're dying to get to his most popular stuff that's a list above there. If you want to soak it all in start at the beginning. He wrote a shit ton of stuff before Call of Cthulhu.