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Looking for stuff related to lovecraft, so far i'm enjoying william hope hodgson

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>>19110594
Clark Ashton Smith
Algernon Blackwood

>> No.19110626

>>19110594
>reading a literal fascist homophobe who reads blatantly racist smut fiction

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>>19110594
Have you read Lovecraft himself?

>> No.19110722

M. R. James - Wrote ghost short stories involving antiquarians and the like. Read 'Count Magnus' and notice his influence in Lovecraft.

Clark Ashton Smith - Part of the Lovecraft circle. Mixed fantasy with some horror, though he wrote some proper horror stories as well. Best short stories cycle is 'Zothique'.

Robert W. Chambers - Author of 'The King In Yellow', a collection of supernatural short stories with a common element, which likely inspired a certain staple of Lovecraft's fiction.

Algernon Blackwood - Excellent prose. Horror-themed novelletes and novellas in which the British landscape is another character.

Ramsey Campbell - A writer who began his career with Lovecraft pastiches and ended up developing his own thing.

Laird Barron - Contemporary short story writer. His style is influenced by Lovecraft, though more 'feverish'.

>> No.19110731

All of the above is great, there’s a titanic influence in him from Dunsany (fantasy writer, the best of them all in my opinion.) which you should also read into, and there is a very obscure writer named MP-shiel, read his house of sound which is itself a rewrite of Poe’s house of usher. It’s very good! His prose style genuinely feels like you’re reading an insane person.

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>>19110594
Clark Ashton Smith pretty much.

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Black Lives Matter

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>>19110781
Say his cat's name

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>>19110594
Any suggestions for William Hope Hodgson stories?
I read The House on the Borderland which was 10/10
But i did not like Ghost Pirates so much.
I am currently reading The Night Land, the language used makes it a real slog so far.

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>>19110602
>>19110722
>>19110731
>>19110761
Thanks anons adding all of these to my amazon order today

>> No.19110981

>>19110602
>Algernon Blackwood
Pretty much The Willows and The Wendigo are hist best ones and they are amazing, other than those it's somewhat mediocre.

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>>19110981
>other than those it's somewhat mediocre
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OP, Arthur Machen was another very important influence on Lovecraft that hasn't been mentioned yet, and one of the best horror writers who ever lived. The House of Souls might be the best introduction.
Also check out Of Kings and Things by Count Stenbock, oft overlooked

>> No.19111013

>>19110981
The Kit Gag and The Listener were also good. He did right quite a few boring ones. I also liked The Haunted Island.