H.P. Lovecraft general

[Anonymous No.22153758]

Get in here Niggermanbros....
>last Lovecraft story you read?
>last Lovecraft story you read that was new to you?
>fav Lovecraft novellette/novella?
>fav Lovecraft story under 10 pages?
>most overrated Lovecraft story?
Talk Lovecraft ITT

[Anonymous No.22153780]

>>22153758
Why is In the Vault so underrated?

[Anonymous No.22153781]

>>22153758
>fav Lovecraft novellette/novella?
shadow over innsmouth
>fav Lovecraft story under 10 pages?
that one based off a dream he had of ancient rome

[Anonymous No.22153786]

>>22153781
>>fav Lovecraft novellette/novella?
shadow over innsmouth
Probably going to read this next. I'm on chapter VII of The Dunwich Horror and really enjoying it.
>>fav Lovecraft story under 10 pages?
that one based off a dream he had of ancient rome
Which one is that?

[Anonymous No.22153790]

>>22153786
Fuck lol I meant to greentext those other replies too. Sorry I like to get high when I shitpost on /lit/ and prior to reading Lovecraft lmao. Gotta get on that...
I also need to re-read At the Mountains of Madness because I read it when I was less enamoured by Lovecraft and I didn't pay good enough attention and forget most of it.

[Anonymous No.22153793]

>>22153758
>>fav Lovecraft story under 10 pages?
It's either What The Moon Brings or The Terrible Old Man. I think both do a great job of condensing his style into a few paragraphs.

[Anonymous No.22153798]

>>22153758
finished reading lovecraft's work and he truly is one of a kind

[Anonymous No.22153800]

>>22153798
Nice. Are you gonna read Robert Howard complete works next?

[Anonymous No.22153804]

>>22153786
>Which one is that?
The Very Old Folk

[Anonymous No.22153811]

>>22153804
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.22153825]

>last Lovecraft story you read?
the outsider
>last Lovecraft story you read that was new to you?
the temple
>fav Lovecraft novellette/novella?
the whisperer in the darkness
>fav Lovecraft story under 10 pages?
the outsider
>most overrated Lovecraft story?
call of cthulhu

[Anonymous No.22153834]

>>22153758
Been thinking of reading Arthur Machen cuz I'm into folk horror movies. How does his work compare to Lovecraft's?

[Anonymous No.22153843]

>>22153800
yep i have his work downloaded already

[Anonymous No.22153907]

>>22153758
>fav Lovecraft story under 10 pages?
definitely The Festival
>most overrated Lovecraft story?
I think the perception of him as a horror writer is kinda old in general. He was much more a poetic fantasy enthusiast and his Dream Cycle is the meat of his work desu

[Anonymous No.22153934]

Reading some (actually, it's the entire) Poe at the moment and afterwards I will read Dagon again and then some more of his letters because those are 10 times better than his stories.

[Anonymous No.22153960]

>>22153934
>he's not an e-reader digital pirate fag
Those are some nice books but nothing will beat free information.

[Anonymous No.22153963]

>>22153960
I like reading books and not just texts. Reading Lovecraft's Arkham House publications isthe comfiest shit ever.

[Anonymous No.22153970]

>>22153963
>anon is unevolved, news at 10

[Anonymous No.22154101]

>>22153758
Last one I read was I the haunter of the dark
It was the last one in the complete fiction comp book I had
Idk if they put them in publication chronology or not
My favorite stories are the white ship and the music of erich zahn for the shorter ones and I'm gonna have to go with dream-quest for the longer form stories. I liked the other long form ones, too, like mountains of madness and the fishpeople one, but dreamquest is just on another fucking level bros
The book I had put it right after the silver key so it fit fucking perfectly
It feels like a prelude to the whole dreamquest, even though I know the actual chronology is not exactly right
>when Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams
HOLY fucking kino bros

[Anonymous No.22154203]

I read most of The Complete Fiction of HP Lovecraft and my favorite story was The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. It was the longest (by quite a bit) of the stories contained in that anthology, it was really more of a novel than a short story

[Anonymous No.22154390]

[Anonymous No.22154928]

>>22154390
Is he wrong here?

[Anonymous No.22154937]

>>22153758
I didn't finish his complete works, but I read a number of his poems and I liked them a lot. Especially Laeta; a Lament, but a bunch of his horror poems have inspired me as well. I need to buy his complete poetical works.

[Anonymous No.22154940]

>>22154937

[Anonymous No.22155265]

What should I read next? I've read only The shadow out of time, The Call of Cthulhu, and Dagón.

[Anonymous No.22155268]

>>22155265
rats in the walls

[Anonymous No.22155274]

I like that one where he goes into a fantasy dreamland. His prose could be quite lovely. Shame he didn’t explore that genre more.

[Anonymous No.22155510]

>>22154390
NNOOOOOOOOO U REDEEMED THE BLOODY

[Anonymous No.22155708]

>>22153758
>fav Lovecraft novellette/novella?
Call of Cthulhu
>last Lovecraft story you read
Shadow over innsmouth
I'm a little new

[Anonymous No.22156371]

>>22153758
Rats in the Walls was the last I read and I enjoyed it. I do wish his dreamland stories got more exposure as I think there is some good grim bright fantasy stuff there that could make a great movie.

[Anonymous No.22156451]

>>22153758
I love The Dreams in the Witch House, the idea of the corners of your room just not making sense and driving you insane is just very appealing to me. Also the racist rat-monster was hilarious.

[Anonymous No.22156460]

>>22155274
Yeah, the Cats of Ulthar is very good.

[Anonymous No.22156519]

>>22153758
For me, it's Polaris. Don't ask why, it just depicts the comfy tragedy of forgetting a dream that you were dreaming that was so good.

[Anonymous No.22156652]

>>22154390
>his most knowledgeable scholar is indian