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What are your top 5 H.P. Lovecraft short stories?

>> No.22881442

>>22881384
The Shadow over Innsmouth
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Colour Out of Space

>> No.22881464

>>22881384
My Love Craft is over 400 H.P.

>> No.22881480
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>>22881384
(5/5) The Quest of Iranon
(4/5) Ex Oblivione
(4/5) Polaris
(4/5) The Outsider
(4/5) The Shadow over Innsmouth

>> No.22881502

>>22881384
The Strange High House in the Mist is his best story for me now, l read everything except reanimator slop. Dreams much better than fishjew freakshit.

>> No.22881530

>>22881502
>l read everything except reanimator slop
Why do people seem to hate them?

>> No.22881563

Pickman's Model
Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
The Haunter Of The Dark
Ex Oblivione

>> No.22881634

>>22881384
Wasn’t the Music of Erich Zann the one he himself liked the most?

>> No.22881719

>>22881634
that one goated frfr.
Redpill me on the Dream cycle or whatever, haven't read that

>> No.22881730

>>22881634
op isn't asking for lovecraft's favourites, he's asking for your favourites

>> No.22881748

Pickman's Model
Rats in the Wall
At the mountains of madness
Herbert West–Reanimator
The Shadow over Innsmouth
Honestly I'm not really a fan of Lovecraft's obsession with dysgenics, it's just not compelling to me

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>>22881384
What is the original pic without the wojak, anyone have it?

>> No.22882416

>>22881730
Yes but the fact HP Lovecraft himself thought it was his best I think should be taken into account in deciding his top 5

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>>22881384
I am one fourth of the way through At the Mountains of Madness and it is bogged down with technical descriptions of the monsters which I don’t care for. It does properly create an atmospheric sense of brooding on the initial arrival in Antarctica however. It is okay horror but not really the greatest thing ever.

>> No.22882436

>>22881384
Of the ones I've read:
1. The Colour Out of Space
2. Shadow Out of Time
3. In the Vault
4. Music of Erich Zann
5. Shadow Over Innsmouth

>> No.22882439

>>22882416
Lovecraft was mediocre so you shouldn’t trust any mediocre opinions he held. Also wasn’t he a racist? Why does he keep citing ancient Arabic stuff in Mountains of Madness? I thought he hated Arabs. Every other paragraph it’s “these monsters remind me of this Arab folklore I read at college in bla bla bla”

>> No.22882565

>>22882439
Weak bait or terminal retardation

>> No.22882567

The one where he crawls through the lost Egyptian city.

The one where he goes crazy in a cabin and becomes an ace murderer

The one where he reads a book in an attic and goes crazy

The one where they get lost in a cave and find a creature

The one where he shipwrecks in a world of gray goo and weird fish

Name them.

>> No.22882569

>>22882565
I don’t see why a supposedly racist man would be so obsessed with Arabic poetry and literature. Is this really the same guy who had a panic attack when he saw a street of New York guidos?

>> No.22883201

>>22882567
>The one where he shipwrecks in a world of gray goo and weird fish

That one’s Dagon I know

>> No.22883209

>>22881384
the one where he calls his cat nigger.

>> No.22883344

>>22883209
The Rats in the Walls

>> No.22884312

>>22882567
The nameless city
idk Dexter Ward maybe??
The dreams in the Witch house
The beast in the cave
Dagon

>> No.22884474
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Celephaïs
Nyarlathotep
The Rats in the Walls
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Silver Key

>> No.22884533

>>22884312
You got them all right.

Hell I forgot their names so I had to go check.

>> No.22884563
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>>22884533
I have this baby on my shelves and I have read it cover to cover. Love me Lovecraft.

>> No.22885141

>>22884563
I should pick it up, my library has no hp love craft... I wonder why...

>> No.22885184

>>22881384
Rats in the Walls
Color Out of Space
The Lurking Fear
The Temple
The MoonBog

>> No.22885293

>>22881384
Those with Randolph fucking Carter. I love this guy like you wouldn't believe!

>> No.22885460
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Why aren’t more people picking at the Mountains of Madness? I love that one

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>>22884563
>>22884533
>The boy don't miss

>> No.22885568

>>22885460
That's the one that got me into him and the entire genre (which seems to have died decades ago).

The thing is, you have to be reading it because you're in the mood to read. If someone dislikes it then that is because they saw it on a list and felt they *had* to read it. It's one of the few works that addresses an audience and does not feel corny.

Like, the narrative element is what Bram Stoker was trying to be.

>> No.22886345

I like Pickman's model

>> No.22886620

From "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
>A recently arrived vagrant, under promise of immunity from prosecution on any additional charge, at last consented to guide a party of troopers to the spot; and there was found in that hasty cache a very hideous and shameful thing. It would not be well for the national - or even the international - sense of decorum if the public were ever to know what was uncovered by that awestruck party.
What was the thing?

>> No.22886640

>>22886620
These were the giants, mighty men which were of old, men of renown, that are being hidden in the Smithsonian archives.

>> No.22886649

>>22885460
I haven't read it (yet).

>> No.22887387

>>22886345
That one’s really good too, some of his shortest ones are his best

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>>22886345
I feel like that one gets a lot of shit, but it's actually rather good. at least a decent 7/10

Anyway, mine are
>The Shadow Over Innsmouth
>The Call of Cthulhu
>The Dunwich Horror
>The Rats in the Walls
>Dreams in the Witch House

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>>22885568
Ha. That would be me. Point taken.

I like horror stuff but the sort of things I normally enjoy (Krasznahorkai being a great example) are more philosophical and psychological in nature. Lovecraft isn’t bad and if you are a big horror nut I can definitely see why you like this. For me personally, it is simply not my type of book. It was worth reading it however because I wanted to see what all the hub bub about this guy was.