1. The Color Out of Space2. Beyond the Walls of Sleep3. From Beyond4. Nyarlathotep5. Shadow Over Innsmouth6. The Nameless City7. The Shadow Out of Time8. The Quest of Iranon9. The Other Gods10. The Fisherman of Falcon Point11. The Cats of Ulthar12. The TombPost your favorites and discuss Lovecraft. The man is an institution. The prose is unmatched.
Writer of thoroughly mediocre dogshit
>>25501710Fucking hell man he was so fucking funny
>>25501767you mean joyce, right
>>25501710That quote is fake btw.
>>25501767...But enough about Stephen King. This is a Lovecraft thread.
The OutsiderThe AlchemistThe Thing on the DoorstepThe Colour Out of SpaceAt the Mountains of Madness
AtMoMNyarlathotepFrom BeyondPolarisFungi from Yuggoth
The Rats in the WallsThe Horror in the MuseumAt the Mountains of MadnessThe Nameless CityThe TempleThe Dreams in the Witch HouseThe Colour Out of Space
The Mound snubbed yet again
>>25502016> be HPL> ugly-ass sonovabitch writer with health issues and anxiety> write about cosmic horrors, terrors, things from the deep> everything is the most alien and mind-bending shit ever> never describe an actual thing, just diaries of "it's so bad, man!"> ohnoithastentacles.jpg> "norwegian guy went mute when he saw this" clickbait ass prose> die in poverty> hailed as great writerLovecraft was shit and the sooner we accept that the actually good writing in the mythos was developed by the people inspired by him, the better.
>>25502171>never describe an actual thingThis excerpt from Shadow over Innsmouth is a description thoughbeit:>But I was not to reach my destination without one very strong impression of poignantly disagreeable quality. The bus had come to a sort of open concourse or radial point with churches on two sides and the bedraggled remains of a circular green in the centre, and I was looking at a large pillared hall on the right-hand junction ahead. The structure’s once white paint was now grey and peeling, and the black and gold sign on the pediment was so faded that I could only with difficulty make out the words “Esoteric Order of Dagon”. This, then, was the former Masonic Hall now given over to a degraded cult. As I strained to decipher this inscription my notice was distracted by the raucous tones of a cracked bell across the street, and I quickly turned to look out the window on my side of the coach.
>>25502171Seems like I struck a nerve. Go back to reading your stories about "le evil cars" and "le evil hotel"
>>25501710For me, it's The Mound
>the prose is unmatchedAny other examples of authors with bad but comfy prose?Also:>best1st half of At the Mountains of Madness. If I have to play fair maybe Colour out of Space.>worstCharles Dexter Ward>overratedInnsmouth>underratedOut of the Aeons
>>25501710If I had never read anything by HP Lovecraft, what single book would you recommend? Which would best capture the totality of his works?
>>25501710I have read the Outsider, Dagon, call of cthulhu, colour out of space, shadow over innsmouth, Dulwich horror, at the mountains of madness, the thing on the doorstep, curious case of charles dexter ward, Pickman's model, transition of juan romero, statement of randolph carter, the terrible old man, the music of erich zann, rats in the walls, the horror at red hook, the whisperer in the darkness Anything else worth reading?
>>25503398The Call of Cthulhu. Everything else is pretty forgettable, except maybe The Dunwich Horror. If you read more than a few of his stories, you'll just see the same things again and again.
>>25501710Transition of Juan Romero because it promotes trans visibility!
>>25503398Shadow Over Innsmouth. when they make a Lovecraftian video game or a movie they'll adapt Shadow Over Innsmouth and then call it something like Call of Cthulhu or Dagon because they think those titles sell better but everyone acknowledges that Shadow Over Innsmouth is the best and most lovecraftian story.
My favourites are some of his shortest:>The Doom of Sarnath>The Quest of IranonBoth really spoke to me. When I read The Doom of Sarnath around age 12, I decided he was my favourite author. Such lurid descriptions! Such otherworldly beauty! I was obsessed. The Quest of Iranon I love for a different reason. It's poignant and heart-wrenching. Really hit me in the feels. I hope some of you anons read and enjoy these. You can read both in an hour.
What is the *worst* story Lovecraft wrote and why is it A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson?
Laird Barron is better.
>>25501710Honestly I think the dream cycle stuff is his best work. I know people don’t care as much about that stuff (it’s not really horror) it is certainly weird thoughbeit. Very weird.
>>25503453* dream quest of unknown kadath. kadesh is a place no one knows where it is where God led israel in exodus times* mountains of madness. lovecraft explores themes of intelligent design, bioengineering, panspermia, degeneration
>Dream Cycle>Best anything I'm starting to think Lovecraftsloppers are legitimately insane.
>>25501710Sorry to break the historical news to you, Lovecraftian, but yes, niggers made boats and were wealthy beyond your imagination before you tried to buy them with shards of glass.
>>25505005They literally didn’t though. Niggers didn’t even invent the wheel. They didn’t even have chairs.
>>25505073Stíll at the literal level? God, this whole common progression goal is going to take eternities again. Okay, get up breh, you're grown, at least preténd you're not 6 months old.
>>25505080Are you really this upset that niggers couldn’t invent the wheel or chair of their own accord, let alone a ship, and someone is calling you out on this fact?
>>25504711I love the story itself and the mood Innsmouth has, even the framing device pays off in the end, but I can't stand the big middle third that's written in phonetic New England fisherman's dialect. The first third is all>The town's gabled roofs affirmed the countryside's picturesque quiescence but belied a sepulchretudinous design.Then the middle third is like ten pages of>"Arrr, me and me mateys be on sea one day haulin' in th' halibut when we sees ye olde lighthouse fro' afar."It's so goofy.
>>25504900Absolutely. It tends to be a lot less goofy, as well. I might just be misremembering, though. It's been years since I've done a read-through of his work.
>It was too horrible to describe!!!Bravo, Brapcraft.>He doesn't do that! Yes, he does. I've read both of his collected works and he does it at least a handful of times.
>>25505201Almost every time he says something is indescribable, he then goes on to in fact describe it at least vaguely.
>character finds a small fragment of a bas-relief>he automatically knows the whole history of some alien civilization dating back to millions of years>it is all fully described over 10 pagesSometimes he just goes full retard with his lore dumps.
In the Vault is an underrated early one.
>>25501710So fuckin zased fokin ell
>>25505847Outside of Mountains, to which you refer, he doesn't really do that. I think the amount of exposition in the other novellas (Kadath, Whisperer, Innsmouth, Time) is fairly concise and doesn't share too much. Completely agree with the assessment of Mountains though and I think it's overrated for that reason.
>>25506630He also does it in The Nameless City.Both these parts completely ruin the atmosphere and pacing, which is very annoying.
