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Besides Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness, what should I read?

>> No.4111270

The colour out of space
The Dunwich Horror
Herbert West, Re-animator
The Shadow Out of Time

Those are my favourites (so far).

>> No.4111277

>>4111259
The music of Erich Zann
Dagon
The Nameless City

You won't be sorry.

>> No.4111282

>>4111270
The Temple
The Shadow Out of Time
Dreams in a Witch House
Haunter of the Dark
Shadow Over Innsmouth

Not in any order

>> No.4111302

Don't read The Call of Cthulhu, it is a poor effort.

Dagon
Celephaïs
Nyarlathotep
The Outsider
The Music of Erich Zann
The Rats in the Walls
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Colour out of Space
The Mound (under the name of Zealia Bishop, but it's Lovecraft all right)
The Shadow out of Time

>> No.4111307

>>4111302

forgot to mention, if you like wacky sonnet-cycles Fungi from Yuggoth is pretty fun

>> No.4111308

>>4111302
>>4111282
>>4111277
>>4111270
Ok, a better question would be; what NOT to read?

>> No.4111313

>>4111308

most of it. Call of Cthulhu is only his most overrated story, Lovecraft wrote a lot of terrible crud.

>> No.4111329

>>4111308
>>4111313
ignore him, he's one of the plethora of idiots who find their way into these threads.

>> No.4111346

>>4111308
Anything dealing with Cthulhu and the mythos or Necronomicon.

>> No.4111350

>>4111308
The Lurking Fear
Herbert West Reanimator
The Terrible Old Man

Really unmemorable works. There is more but I can't remember them.

>> No.4111352
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4111352

>>4111329

Wait, are you insulting the OP or me? I'm >>4111302 and >>4111307. I have no idea how you could judge anyone in this thread to be an idiot since the majority of it is listing things.

also,

>implying Lovecraft didn't write a lot of terrible crud

>> No.4111357

>>4111350

Herbert West is hilarious, you shut your whore mouth.

Horror at Red Hook is dreadful. Thing on the Doorstep and Case of Charles Dexter Ward are unfuckingbelievably long with no payoff in either case.

>> No.4111364

Lovecraft on "The Call of Cthulhu":

>Rather middling – not as bad as the worst, but full of cheap and cumbrous touches.

>> No.4111648

>>4111352
I was talking to you. Here is the post if you have already forgotten it

>>4111329

>> No.4111823

The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Color Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow Out of Time

Read Chambers too. The King in Yellow is awesome.

>> No.4111826

>>4111259
who the fuck is that scary ass cunt

>> No.4112053

Just read all of them.

>> No.4112070

>>4111823
>The King in Yellow is awesome.
Brofist. That was a FUCKING cool book

>> No.4112097

The Doom That Came To Sarnath
Pickman's Model
The Statement Of Randolph Carter
The Outsider
Imprisoned With The Pharoahs
The Thing On The Doorstep
Dagon

>> No.4112106

>>4112097
all of these.

>> No.4112107

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
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,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

HPL was /pol/ as fuck.

>> No.4112262

>not listening to the audiobooks read by wayne june

>> No.4112274

Do you guys believe that hype Lovecraft gets like people saying he is the best horror writer who ever exists ruins it for people who never have read his works before then does so after all the years of hype?

>> No.4112288

Ex Oblivione

And a collaboration he did with RH Barlow, "The Night Ocean." One of my favorite pieces of literature.
here, have a link. It's worth reading, even if you normally don't care for Lovecraft.
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/no.aspx

>> No.4112291

Colour Out of Space is excellent.

The Curse of Yig (with Zealia Bishop) scared the shit out of my when I was younger.

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>> No.4113858

>>4112274
Hype can ruin anything. I mean, every day there's a thread about some universally classic being hugely disappointing, it would help if people were more sparing with their praise and less self righteous in their opinions.

>> No.4113869

>>4112297
In the time it would take someone to read this "infographic" they could be 2 or 3 pages into whichever Lovecraft story they randomly open.

What in God's name is the point of all this shit?

>> No.4113878

>>4111826
New

>> No.4113885

>>4111302
I named my cat Nyarlathotep. Nyaa~

>> No.4113950

Read The Dream-quest Of Unkown Kadath. Then move to other better writers such as William Hope Hodgson.

>> No.4113951

>>4113869
Have you read Lovecraft, by any chance?

>> No.4113952

>>4113951
Yes, almost everything he wrote.

>> No.4113974

>>4113952
If you could read two pages of his short stories in the time it takes to read that infographic, you're either really bad at reading infographics or you're skimming over his dense prose.

>> No.4113993

>>4113974
Lovecraft's prose isn't as simple as say, Murakami, but it isn't as dense as, say, Faulkner. It's relative.

For someone with a long history of reading the likes of Joyce and Faulkner and Conrad, Lovecraft is a breeze.

>> No.4113996

>>4113993
It's not the densest, yeah, but damn, it took a really short time for me to read that infographic.

>> No.4114003
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4114003

Bought this a while back and have read 17 of the stories in it. Lovecraft recycles a lot of his themes and some of his stories are just not scary to a 21th century reader. Haven't gotten to any of the Cthulu focused stories yet, but here are the ones I recommend:

Dagon
The Doom that came to Sarnath
The Nameless City
The Music of Eric Zann
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Horror at Red Hook

Not to say that the other stories of his I've read are bad, but the ones I've listed were definitely the stand-outs for me.

>> No.4114054

>>4113869
>What in God's name is the point of all this shit?

To avoid typing out the same god damn answers once every six hours when a new Lovecraft thread gets made.

>> No.4114117

Where the fuck can I find an online copy of The Dark Brotherhood? I don't want to have to pay someone for a dead man's ebook.