H.P Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.16745571]

I love what he inspired, but I've yet to actually read any of his works. I know he has a lot of short stories and novellas, where should I start?

[Anonymous No.16745634]

>>16745571
The Hound.
Or just get that complete collection and read from start to finish.

[Anonymous No.16745639]

>>16745634
Do that

[Anonymous No.16745734]

>>16745571
Read the Color from Outer Space, it's a good one, only like 15 pages long

[Anonymous No.16745753]

>>16745571
Start with the first Penguin omnibus of his works. Also, Lovecraft's racialism is an important of his vision, so I wouldn't discount it as an "outmoded belief". I'm not saying this in an edgy /pol/ kind of way either, but you can't really understand Lovecraft's overall if you ignore his racism.
Also, Lovecraft did not like dogs, so your image doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.16745768]

>>16745571
Dagon is pretty accessible but kind of unlike his other stories, I also like the Dunwich Horror

[Anonymous No.16745777]

>>16745753
>overall
vision*

[Anonymous No.16745779]

nigger cat XDDDDD

[Anonymous No.16745788]

>>16745753

[Anonymous No.16745798]

>>16745788
based, wordsworth's even cheap in my third world shithole.

[Anonymous No.16745821]

>>16745788
ST Joshi's commentary on Lovecraft makes the Penguin omnibuses worth it though. I also like how ST Joshi does not explain away Lovecraft's racism as a product of his times.
The reality is Lovecraft believed the evolutionary sophisticated and civilized man, in particular Anglos, will reach the realization there is a kind of unfathomable chaos underlying reality with science, but this is what primitive people had already understood (e.g., the craziness of Aztecs and Aboriginals). Therefore, the civilized and sophisticated man will shrink away in horror while the primitive man continues dancing to the mad tunes of reality.
So far, I think Lovecraft's best story was "The Shadow over Innsmouth", which does deal with the horror of miscegenation.
Also, Lovecraft has many stories where he believes the only way to escape the world's chaos is through dreams like "Celephaïs". His views are a lot more complex than what modern culture makes it out to be, and I don't think you can ignore how racism is an integral part of Lovecraft's vision. There's no problem with that though.

[Anonymous No.16746434]

>>16745571
I have the complete fiction of lovecraft and everynow and then I read a story, I'm still right at the start though, the most recent story I read was The White Ship and its definitely one of my favourites so far along with this one where a guy living in an old castle finds out about a family curse

[Anonymous No.16746593]

>>16745734
definitely this

[Anonymous No.16746612]

>>16745571
Like others have said, just get a complete collection and read them all. You can watch his work get better if you do that. But if you can really only read one or two, read Beyond the Mountains of Madness and the Color from Outer Space. Those are probably my favorites.

[Anonymous No.16746698]

>>16745571
Oh hey, it's Niggerman's brother, Jewessgirl

[Anonymous No.16746855]

>>16746698
That's not his wife, Anon, it's a puppy named Irishman, because of the color of its fur or because it was dumb.

[Anonymous No.16747523]

lovecraft is terrible don't bother. if you like him you're either a pseud or a woman.

[Anonymous No.16747675]

>>16745571
Dunwitch Horror is probably my favorite so far

>>16745734
>>16746593
That's the one I liked the least. It didn't really have anything that made it stand out.

[Anonymous No.16747711]

>>16745788
Based, their version of the Portrait of an young man as an artist has even some great endnotes

[Anonymous No.16748142]

>>16745571
>Lovecraft
Didn't live a tough life.