/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14480274]

What are his best stories?

[Anonymous No.14480305]

>>14480274
Color out of space, Cthulu of course, Reanimator and pretty much every story that doesn't last less than 5 pages

[All seer No.14480326]

Dunwich horror BY Far. Wasn't too touched by kthulu.

[Anonymous No.14480344]

His dream cycle stories are best because he moves away from the AHH A TENTACLE I'M GOING INSANE stuff that gets him shitposted here.

[Anonymous No.14480382]

>>14480274
Music of Erich Zann
Pickman's Model

At least those are my two favorite.

[Anonymous No.14480645]

>>14480274
he looks like guenon

[Anonymous No.14480695]

>>14480305

Its not that good desu dont know why it gets proposed that often.

>>14480382

OH GOD THERE ARE IMPS CRAWLING UNDER THE CITY IN TUNNELS AND SOMEONE PAINTED THEM AAAHHHH IM GOING INSANEEE

>>14480274

Shadow over innsmouth by far

Horror at Redhook is good.

Reanimator is quite good if you can get past the repetitions

And ofcourse, the more racism, the better the story.

[Anonymous No.14480701]

>>14480645
But handsome.

[Anonymous No.14480702]

>>14480344

Feels like im reading the story of a 8 year old when encountering that Kadath dream quest shit.

[Anonymous No.14480716]

>>14480702
>>14480344

Although the port where the demon ships traded their diamonds and bought negro slaves was pretty based, and that they traveled through some dimension where the sea was a tense mass of smooth dark flexible material or something, and that there were demons driving trucks in that realm carrying slaves and loading the negroes into tiny boxes,....

Yeah... that was pretty based

[Anonymous No.14480747]

I liked The thing on the doorstep

[Anonymous No.14480780]

>>14480747

What was it?

[Anonymous No.14480800]

>>14480274
Haunter of the Dark or literally just any story involving Nyarlathotep

[Anonymous No.14480810]

Bloodbourne

[Anonymous No.14480821]

>>14480701
No, you fag.

[Anonymous No.14480867]

>>14480780
You'll have to read it to find out!

[Anonymous No.14480914]

>>14480780
It was a thing, on a doorstep no less. None of the safety of a stoop or porch, but the thing was squarely on the doorstep. Just imagine, a hairsbreadth of being within the house itself, oh terror!

[Anonymous No.14480919]

>>14480800

"Ohh is that a the dark one? Is that a pharaoh evil incarnate?"

"What do you want Nyarlahotep? How can we serve you?"
"_"
"Whats that?"
"_"
Am I going what, my lord?
"Insane"
"IM GOING INSAAAAAAANEEEEE AAAAAHHHHHHHH "

[Anonymous No.14480935]

>>14480914

[Anonymous No.14480938]

The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Rats in the Walls
The Colour Out of Space
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Outsider

[Anonymous No.14481912]

>>14480274
Anything narrated by Gordon Gould.

[Anonymous No.14482199]

>>14480274
It could stand to be expanded upon, but this is his best. Too bad we never got an hour long drama with Brian Cox or someone as Malone. CBS Mystery Theater guy does a terrific job nailing the tone of these stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THn5jKet0IU

[Anonymous No.14482215]

>>14480326
correct

[Anonymous No.14482222]

I think this has the highest word count among his fiction, at 45,000 words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIowY7ijZw

[Anonymous No.14482231]

>>14482199
Notice how the tone is almost like Vince Gilligan's scripts for The X-Files...

[Anonymous No.14482367]

>>14482222
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (his only novel) is his longest story at 51k words.

[Anonymous No.14482369]

on the creation of niggers

[Anonymous No.14482384]

>>14480274
Pickman's Model
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Outsider

[Anonymous No.14482396]

>>14480274
Facts Concerning the Case of Late Arthur Jermyn

[Anonymous No.14482435]

>>14482367
>his only novel
only novella.

[Anonymous No.14482515]

The adventures of Niggerman

[Anonymous No.14482608]

I don't know I haven't read them all, it depends on if you are reading them for pure pulp entertainment or for literary value. I enjoyed stuff like the rats in the walls or the music of Erich zan more than the mountains of madness but I feel like madness had more substance for lovecrafts themes than those examples.

Reminder you literally can not intimately comprehend Lovecraft unless you are a coward in this brave new world.

[Anonymous No.14482645]

>>14480274
The book_chemist has video where he lists the stories he'd include in his dream Lovecraft anthology. The guy's a massive Lovecraft nerd, so I trust his judgement.

The list:
Dagon
The Call of Cthulhu
The Music of Erich Zann
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Dunwhich Horror
Celephais
The Colour Out of Space
The Quest of Iranon
The Ulthar
The Rats in the Walls
The Silver Key
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Tomb

[Anonymous No.14482664]

>>14482645
and these are the honorable mentions if you finish those

The Whisperer in Darkness
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Curse of Yig
Pickman's Model
The White Ship
Cool Air
Hypnos

[Anonymous No.14482770]

>>14482608
Erich zann and rats are more entertaining, but mountains has more interesting ideas. I'd still take the pulpier ones over the heady ones though, mountains is way too slow for me at the start. It did inspire my favorite horror film, The thing, so I can appreciate it for that. I also tend to enjoy the monster stories over his dream arc.

[Anonymous No.14483948]

>>14481912

>not Wayne June

You absolute plebe

[Anonymous No.14483952]

Polaris is quite underrated. Very short but thoroughly dabs on Eskimoos.

[Anonymous No.14483961]

The temple (ww1 U-boat) is also really good, only actual scary story lovecraft wrote

>>14482384
>Pickman's Model

Objectively sucks

>The Statement of Randolph Carter

What is it?
I cant tell you
Cmon what is it?
Noo, i cant tell you, yoill go insane
Tell me
OAAAH IM GOING INSANNEE DOWN HERE

>>14482396
Is that the one where the dude fucks a monkey? Pretty good one

[Anonymous No.14483999]

>>14483961
I forgot about the U-Boat, that's one of my favorites. I'd add that to the book_chemist's list I posted up above as well.

[Anonymous No.14484009]

niggers

[Anonymous No.14484416]

Some anon posted this list, which I followed. I’m reposting it now.

[Anonymous No.14484445]

>>14480274
Shadow over Innsmouth, Rats in the Walls, Dream-Quest.

[Anonymous No.14484446]

The whisperer in darkness followed by The thing on the doorstep

[Anonymous No.14484459]

>>14482645
You dont have own opinions bugman?

[Anonymous No.14485165]

>>14480274
The colour out of space

[Anonymous No.14485186]

>>14480274
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, The Music of Erich Zann, The Rats in the Walls, The Shadow Out of Time, and The Whisperer in Darkness in indisputably some of his best stories. Some other great ones: The Dunwich Horror, The Haunter of the Dark, The Thing on the Doorstep, and The Festival.

[Anonymous No.14485190]

>>14485186
>in indisputably
are indisputably

[Anonymous No.14485250]

They may not be objectively his best works, but my personal favorites are The Silver Key and Through the Gates of the Silver Key.

[Anonymous No.14485254]

I liked the one where the guy learns about the 1000 year history of the alien civilization and also the interior decorating of said civilization by looking at stone murals

[Anonymous No.14486185]

>>14485250

Dreamfag

[Anonymous No.14486326]

>>14484459
I don't claim to have opinions on things I know little about. I've only read a fraction of these stories.