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Anonymous Thu Oct 27 01:37:46 2011 No.2161741 [SPOILER]

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So I've been looking to get into HP Lovecraft, as I enjoyed a few movies and a video game based on his books, so I was wondering what you guys thought of him. Would you recommend any stories/books?

Pic unrelated, as I don't have any /lit/ related pictures.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 01:43:46 2011 No.2161751 God awful.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 02:06:46 2011 No.2161779 File: 61 KB, 521x800, necro-go.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just pick up the Necronomicon, has pretty much all his best stuff. The guy writes some interesting stuff and I enjoy it. That's about all I can say.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 02:19:46 2011 No.2161788 >>2161751 Any particular reasons why? >>2161779 Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 02:33:46 2011 No.2161803 i liked the dunwitch horror, and at the mountains of madness.

>>	courtney Thu Oct 27 11:41:46 2011 No.2162168 music of eric zahn's good >:3

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 11:42:46 2011 No.2162170 >>2161779 I have that. Very good collection and nice binding as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 11:46:46 2011 No.2162174 "The Rats in the Walls" is like Poe at his creepiest. "The Mountains of Madness" is lengthy, but very interesting. "The Call of Cthulhu" is a must.

>>	courtney Thu Oct 27 11:47:46 2011 No.2162175 >>2162174 The Rats in the walls is brilliant, i agree.

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 11:50:46 2011 No.2162180

The Music of Eric Zahn and Pickman's Model are good non-mythos stories. The best mythos stories are Haunter of the Dark, Whisperer in the Darkness, and Call of Cthulhu, obviously. Mountains of Madness is supposed to be good, but it's tl;dr in my opinion.

Dunwich Horror and the Horror at Red Hook are great if you're a crazy racist.

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 11:55:46 2011 No.2162183

Music of Eric Zahn, Dreams in the Witch House. Really, everything mentioned in the thread is good. His stories are all over the net, just download them all and read them at random. Some aren't great, but (to my memory, none are terrible), and they're all pretty short. Check on wikipedia to see if there's any you oughta read beforehand though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 11:56:46 2011 No.2162184 just go the Interbutts and find some and read it wtf -- this needs a discussion?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 11:58:46 2011 No.2162190 Also, check out the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's movie of Call of Cthulhu. It's CoC imagined as an expressionist silent film. Really fucking good.

>>	Anonyomus Thu Oct 27 12:23:46 2011 No.2162217 File: 117 KB, 496x700, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 21:28:46 2011 No.2162966 >>2162190 Do this, but read the story first.

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