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18042848 No.18042848 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a guide to read Lovecraft?

>> No.18042854

N

>> No.18042870

He's a fucking pulp author. Why the fuck would you need a guide?

>> No.18042883

>>18042854
IGGER

>> No.18042892

>>18042870
>pulp pulp pulp
Suck a fucking orange and learn a new word, retard.

>> No.18042893

Start with his cats name

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>>18042893
faggot

>> No.18043251

>>18042892
Its a descriptor and its correct. Retard.
Besides, he makes a good point. You can literally start anywhere. Pick a title that sounds cool, doesn't matter

>> No.18043456

>>18042893
kek

>> No.18043497

why has there been a dedicated lovecraft shill recently
you know hes dead right?

>> No.18043532

Maybe try reading black woman instead of a racist dead white man?

>> No.18043564

>>18043532
I'm esl, I'll never get better if all I read is ebonics. The racist white man will get me there - I really liked Ibid, his biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus.

>> No.18043773

You dont really need a guide but if you want to get a closer look at him, go to the hp lovecraft archive at hplovecraft.com , it has some essays and literary criticism written by him

>> No.18044887

The whole anthology is like 600 pages. Just read it.

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18045029

You're welcome

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>>18045029
Here's another

>> No.18045316

>>18042883
MAN

>> No.18045340

>>18045029
Kekked at the filename.

>> No.18045455

>>18042848
Buy a complete anthology of his short stories.
>inb4 the stories he ghost wrote
Sure, most of them don't include those stories, buy The Horror in the Museum edited by Wordsworth, it's missing a couple of stories but let's be honest, most of them are mediocre and this edition is cheap as fuck. If you want to pay a shitload of money for something edited by Joshi, go ahead.

>> No.18045507

>>18045029
read Pickman's model before Dream Quest.
Also I would recommend reading The history of the Necronomicon right after Dagon, it's mostly just to get an idea of what it is and it's only half a page so it isn't a bother.
The dreams in the Witch House is pretty independent and slightly longer, I use it to introduce people to HP. Lovecraft, especially when they say they dislike sci-fi

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>>18045455
Best /lit/erary investment I ever made.

>> No.18046542

>>18042848
however you the fuck you want

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>>18042848
Unironically read the houellebecq thesis about Lovecraft.

>> No.18047599

>>18042848
Read his stuff in alphabetical order

>> No.18047684

>>18045507
This, Pickman is a must before Dream Quest

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>>18045316