Where to start with Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.19309388]

What should I read first?

[Anonymous No.19309415]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e8avEpOkMqU

[Anonymous No.19309421]

colour out of space is a good intro imo

[Anonymous No.19309635]

I started with his shortest stories and went from there.

[Anonymous No.19309652]

>>19309388
I just got the Delphi Complete Works and started from the beginning

[Anonymous No.19309679]

>>19309388
Read on the creation of Niggers


When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
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,
Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER.

[Anonymous No.19309687]

If you read the complete works skip the pre-1926 stories and Kadath until later.

[Anonymous No.19309695]

>>19309388
Dagon is probably the best introduction for any type of his stories. It introduces the 'mythos' but you could also branch off into his 'weird' stories from there.
Dagon, The Nameless City, The Hound and The Statement of Randolf Carter are the best short pieces to start with.
If you want longer stories nearing novellas read Whisperer in Darkness, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, or Colour Out of Space

[Anonymous No.19309908]

>>19309388
My favorite is the Witch's house. Pretty good to hook up with.

[Anonymous No.19310332]

Del Rey has three good collections of his work: Best Of, Dream Cycle and Transition. I just started with the best of and went on to the others. It doesn't really matter where you start because if you like one story you'll like them all.

[Anonymous No.19310390]

>>19309388
I started with the horror of Dunwich, I don't know if it's the optimal thing but it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.19310446]

dagon is probably the best s"starter" story as it was written early in his career and gives an idea of the atmosphere of his stories, its only a couple pages and there isnt much to it though. rats in the walls is good if you want something that actually has a little bit more meat to it

[Anonymous No.19310480]

>>19309388
I started with At the Mountains of Madness and it seemed like a good a place as any to start.

[Anonymous No.19310494]

The outsider so such a ncie little story bros. honestly not something i expected from lovecraft

[Anonymous No.19310500]

>>19310494
It's exactly like something I would expect from Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.19310526]

>>19310500
you have to admit its at the very least a pretty fresh twist on what he normally writes

[Anonymous No.19310975]

>>19309388
I bought Necronomicon and read it, then found other tales on the internet.

[Anonymous No.19310988]

>>19310975
I hope you mean the Gollancz "Necronomicon".

[z No.19311214]

music of eric zahn is one of my favorite subtle and effective. was one of his favorites 2

[Anonymous No.19311315]

>>19310975
Y-you read the actual Necronomicon anon??

[Anonymous No.19311611]

When I first started reading Lovecraft, I wasn't impressed; it seemed a lot like Poe.
Then I read "Pickman's Model", and everything changed for me.
Read that one first.

[Anonymous No.19311626]

>>19309388
>buy lovecraft anthology
>nothing about sexual techniques
>read how he was an incel shut-in
I bought the wrong book. What should I read to better at sex?

[Anonymous No.19311649]

I think The Festival is one his best written stories. The language really conjures a spell.

[Anonymous No.19311671]

>>19311626
"A propos your piece on Lovecraft, the question of HPL and sex had been bothering me for some time […] so in 1953 when I was in Los Angeles, I asked Sonia Davis—the ex-Mrs. Lovecraft—rather bluntly about HPL’s sexual adequacy. She assured me that he had been entirely adequate sexually, and since she impressed me as a well-sexed woman, not easily satisfied, I concluded that HPL’s “Aversion” was very probably nothing more than a kind of puritanism—that is, it was something “gentlemen” didn’t discuss."
—August Derleth, Haunted (1968) vol. 1, no 3, 114

[Anonymous No.19311683]

>>19311671
Lovecraft was almost certainly gay and his marriage a sham. Derleth was pretty conservative and was trying to protect his mentor's reputation

[Anonymous No.19311687]

>>19309388
Read one of his books, nigga.

[Anonymous No.19311699]

>>19311683
Derleth was bisexual.

[Anonymous No.19311721]

>>19309415
sneed

[Anonymous No.19311915]

I just started reading Lovecraft and I'm wondering, what did he think of this 'mythos' stuff? Did he encourage this or is it an autistic fan reaction to a guy who just likes to use some of the same names and places in his work

[Anonymous No.19311919]

>>19311915
He actively encouraged it.

[Anonymous No.19311957]

>>19309388
Read the Necronomicon, it's at every bookstore

[Anonymous No.19311975]

If you want a book on Lovecraft's work then this is the best one.