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Where do I start?

>> No.17777101

anywhere you want, though his earliest stuff is the worst

>> No.17777110

>>17777061
with his cat

>> No.17777130

Depends on what you want, I find his dream cycle the most pleasing so that’s a fine place to start, but you can start from the beginning or at random even as long as the story you pick isn’t too obviously interconnected.

>> No.17777137

>>17777110
what was his name again? gookguy?

>> No.17777141

>>17777061
With Clark Ashton Smith.

>> No.17777145

>>17777061
At the end

>> No.17777147

>>17777101
How? It all seems the same quality to me

>> No.17777159

>>17777147
> It all seems the same quality to me
The stories he ghostwrote are mediocre at best.

>> No.17777163

>>17777061
Dagon

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>>17777110
i forgot his name

>> No.17777256

>>17777226
Nyagger

>> No.17777276

The beginning, the collection is chronological.

>> No.17777280

>>17777163
The Tomb is amazing though, and Dagon is where he says 'I can't even describe it,' like 5 times.

>> No.17777759

>>17777061
just read the word "indescribable" a few times

>> No.17777772

>>17777061
With Robert Chambers

>> No.17777810

By reading something better

>> No.17777861

>>17777061
Shadow over Innsmouth

>> No.17779418

>>17777772
So close

>> No.17779458

>>17777101
I believe the opposite. The early to middle period stuff was more engaging and moved at a faster pace. He did not get so autistically bogged down in minutiae and over-explanation, as he tended to later on. Works like "At the Mountains of Madness" are borderline unreadable to me. There are like 5 straight chapters of vague, pseudo-decription of impossible architecture, made using words clearly only he and five other people know, while hinting occasionally at something scary waiting around the next corner. Like, we get it bro. You read a bunch of geology, geometry, and architecture textbooks, and wrote down a list of specialized words as you came across them, and then employed them indiscriminately to heighten the sense that something "beyond understanding" was being described. Ultra autism.
The earlier stuff, meanwhile, reads like a mix of Sherlock Holmes and Poe. He still hits a majority of the same notes (oooh, scary cosmic monster beyond understanding, I can't even describe the terror!) without taking fucking decades to get there.

>> No.17780133

>>17777061
They are all self contained one shots with a few exceptions. I recommend Herbert West Reanimator and Dreams in the Witch House

>> No.17780564

>>17777061
nowhere unless you're 14

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>>17777061

>> No.17781253

>>17777141
>>17777772

Ok, these guys have an inkling of a clue.

Read the following in order:

>HP Lovecraft:
Under the Pyramids
Cool Air
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Color Out of Space
The Silver Key
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
The Shadow Out Of Time
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Cats of Ulthar
Dagon
Dreams in a WitchHouse
From Beyond
Nyarlathotep
Dunwich Horror
At the Mountains of Madness

>Robert Chambers:
Repairer of Reputations
The Mask
In The Court of the Dragon
The Prophet's Paradise

>Ambrose Bierce
Can Such Things Be

>Clark Ashton Smith
Everything you can find.

>Robert E Howard
Any of his horror stories.

>Arthur Machen
The Great God Pan
The White People
The White Powder

>Alan Moore
The Courtyard
Neonomicon
Providence

>August Derleth
No Need, but if you love the mythos it's... ok

>> No.17781267

Necronomicon

>> No.17781541

>>17781253
Thanks, I'll read them.

>> No.17781565

>>17777061
Dagon but skip his shitty pre-1920 stories

>> No.17781826

>>17777061
START WITH CAT

>> No.17781894

>>17781565
What is wrong with The Tomb?

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17782300

>>17777061
Watch haiyore! nyaruko san

>> No.17782413

>>17777061
I started with “Shadow over Innsmouth,” and it hooked me enough to read most of his works, so I think it’s a decent intro. I also like “The Music of Erich Zann,” although it’s not really representative of his works as a whole.

>> No.17782726

>>17781894
it's not shitty