Must read Lovecraft stories

[Anonymous No.19726916]

A while ago I bought the complete works of Hp Lovecraft. There are a lot of stories with varying quality. Which stories are must reads? Or at least the best.

[Anonymous No.19726958]

[Anonymous No.19727056]

i think those included in the library of america release and dream-quest would be a nice selection
you can look up the table of contents on the loa site

[Anonymous No.19727080]

>>19726916
on the creation of niggers

[Anonymous No.19727133]

>>19726916
The Shadow over Innsmouth
In the Vault
Rats in the Walls
Call of Cthulhu
The Music of Erich Zann
The Picture in the House
The Colour out of Space
The Whisperer in the Darkness

[Anonymous No.19727359]

>>19726916
The Shadow ocer Innsmouth is my personal favorite
Call of Cuthulhu is a classic
The Colout out of Space is the last one I read and it was quite creepy
The Cats of Ulthar is a nice short one
At the Mountains of Madness has a huge amount of world-building, but I don't like it for precisely that reason. The first half is cool though
Rats in the Walls has the funny cat

That's what I have off the top of my head, have fun

[Anonymous No.19727369]

>>19726916
The Street

[Anonymous No.19727563]

At the Mountains and Charles Dexter Ward

[Anonymous No.19727584]

>>19726916
Dream-Quest series is the only one I don't like. It often gets quoted by brainlets as their favorite because they think it makes they seem more clever than the more well-known stories.

[Anonymous No.19727592]

>>19726916
The Cthulhu cycle spans 6 or 8 stories and its a good 600 pages, not just the one story titled call of cthulhu.

[Anonymous No.19727609]

>character sees a thing
>"UNFATHOMABLE, UNIMAGINABLE HORROR BEYOND COMPREHENSION"
>goes crazy
there, you've just read every lovecraft story

[Anonymous No.19727612]

>>19727609
This is literally untrue.

t. About 1/3 into Lovecraft's Complete Works

[Anonymous No.19727632]

>>19727612
my biggest problem with lovecraft is that he's terribly bad at describing stuff, it feels like the only words he knew were horrifying, unimaginable, etc.

>y-you have no immagination!
no, it's just poor and cheap writing

[Anonymous No.19727646]

>>19727609

[Anonymous No.19727661]

>>19727632
>unimaginable, unimagined
23 times
>horrifying, horrified, horrifiedly, horrify
28 times

[Anonymous No.19727706]

>>19727609
t. never read Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.19727815]

>>19727632
Again, this is untrue. He barely ever uses those words. When he wants to say something like 'unimaginable' he tends to use phrases.

[Anonymous No.19727827]

>>19726916
Thing at the Doorstep and Dreams in the Witchouse are my personal favs.
Can also recommend getting the Conan complete works, as Howard and Lovecraft were friends and lovecraftian themes spill over to Conan (he aint having any of that shit).

[Anonymous No.19727853]

>>19726916
The Nameless City and Dream Cycle

[Anonymous No.19728031]

Necronomicon audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGi4ACLePGw

[Anonymous No.19728162]

>>19727632
>it feels like the only words he knew were horrifying, unimaginable, etc.
You're full of shit and have never read them. He's one of the most overly-verbose writers of the 20th century.

[Random thoughs No.19728429]

>>19727609
Thats an absolutly beutiful and sexy piece of paper in her phone

[Anonymous No.19729623]

(...) a burst of multitudinous and leprous life—a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. Seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents’ slime it rolled up and out of that yawning hole, spreading like a septic contagion and streaming from the cellar at every point of egress—streaming out to scatter through the accursed midnight forests and strew fear, madness, and death. (...) Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined corridors of purple fulgurous sky . . . formless phantasms and kaleidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scene; forests of monstrous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils; mound-like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion . . . insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and daemon arcades choked with fungous vegetation. . . . Heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing skies.

[Anonymous No.19730945]

>>19726916
Call of Cthulhu is the only actual must read

[Anonymous No.19731465]

>>19727133
The wisperer in the darkness was utter shit, stay away from it if you value your time

[Anonymous No.19731691]

>>19726916
The Shadow over Innsmouth (definitely the best)
At the Mountains of Madness
The Dunwich Horror
The Horror at Red Hook (mostly because it's the most racist)
The Haunter of the Dark

[Anonymous No.19733195]

>>19726916
I think his longer works are the best. I really like At The Mountains Of Madness, although admittedly it's slow. Charles Dexter Ward is really interesting. I also like Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath-- but I'm in the minority. When he takes his time he can build an atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.19733303]

>>19726916
Music of Erich Zann