what am I in for?
>>25375256Really cozy stories about a professor walking around and recalling the time he opened the nihim yi r'than tome in-between anecdotes about university life
>>25375256I’m gonna be honest, you should only read one or two lovecraft stories at a time. You should not read them all like a book because it gets very repetitive. The purple prose and atmosphere is kind of cool at first if you can play along with the conceit but if you ever take a step back and think about what you are reading you’ll realize how limited it really is. He is at his most kino when he leans furthest into the fantastical elements, for example in Celephaïs, the problem is that most of the time is spent alluding to deeper realities than showing them.
>manchild redditor-core
>>25375256I have that same book, you're in for a great time
>>25375256>reading HPYou listen to it.Obligate audiobook from the goat.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkEYUkv4PE
>giant hardcoversPrepare for sore wrists.
I was genuinely annoyed by his xenophobia when reading through Shadow Over Innsmouth. The entire basis of the unsettling nature is that the people of the town are mixed race, and as such impoverished and weak of spirit, but what's even creepier is that you can't even tell what race they're mixed with. It all felt very stupid and histrionic and not creepy at all. I don't care to read any more of his work.
> reading Lovecraft for the first time> already know that he is supposed to be mega racist> so what everyone was racist back then how bad can it be> story where a man fucks and marries a literal ape and everyone thinks it’s a Portuguese womankek
>>25375778lmao
>>25375768They were literally cross-bred with alien fish-people you stupid ass.
>>25375757skill issue; low T
>>25375798yeah, I read the story. He spends the first third of it agonizing over being unable to neatly categorize the race of the locals. It's retarded and if it resonates with you, you're retarded.>A certain greasiness about the fellow increased my dislike. He was evidently given to working or lounging around the fish docks, and carried with him much of their characteristic smell. Just what foreign blood was in him I could not even guess. His oddities certainly did not look Asiatic, Polynesian, Levantine, or negroid, yet I could see why the people found him alien. I myself would have thought of biological degeneration rather than alienage.
>>25375825
>>25375757How fucking weak are you, anon?
>>25375853I have carpal tunnel.
darkness... horror. primal terror... extra-dimensional beings... madness... artifacts... decadence... religious fetishes... orgies... subhumans... space... ancient gods... sordid cults... HAIL YOG-SOTOTH! HAIL NYARLATHOTEP! BLESS-N’gai, n’gha’ghaa, bugg-shoggog, y’hah! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
>>25375856weak faggot.
>>25375883Too based.
>>25375778Lmao ok now I cant wait to read these. Im putting it off until october
>>25376077Spooktober is from September 1-October 31, anon.
Dunsany is so far superior to HPL it’s silly. HPL is a juvenile parody of Poe and Dunsany. Read Jorkens.
>>25376125Where to start with Lord Dunsany?
>>25376149His short story collections. Read Dunsany in bibliographical order starting with the gods of pegana. Read every word written by him including his essays.
>>25376164I'm basically already doing this with Ramsey Campbell, so it'll be awhile.
>>25375282fuck off.
>>25376178Dunsany wrote like 500 short stories and very few novels in his career. Reading him flies right by as nothing really drags.
>>25375256I have the same edition. As far as I can tell, it's complete and uncensored, however, it's missing the stories he ghost-wrote.This anthology edited by Wordsworth has the vast majority of them in it. It's either this or an overpriced volume edited by Joshi.
