Lovecraft

[Alek_tq]

So, I'd like some interesting classic by this writer. I'm at the end of The Stand by Stephen King and now I'm thinking about what next?

Suggest.



EDIT:
Forgot, I have Wells' "War of The Worlds" sitting on my shelf. Its rather short, so after 200 pages of The Stand and War of The Worlds, what Lovercraft's novel to read?

[fathersquid]

H. P. Lovecraft? I'd say that you'd be best at picking out one of the collections of his stories... I don't think there were a lot of novels. Most of it was stories that were printed in the pulp magazines of the early part of the 20th century like Weird Tales.

Here's a bibliography...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ecraft#Fiction

[ward_rb]

yea, if he actually wrote a novel ive never heard of it.

anyway, these are the collections i own.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-H-P-Lovec...9867152&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Cthulhu-..._bxgy_b_text_c

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Madness-H...ref=pd_sim_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Terror-..._bxgy_b_text_b

[Alek_tq]

K, thx. I went into this without knowing to properly spell the man's name so forgive me ? :P

[Roland]

At The Mountains of Madness is a "novella"...basically the longest story he ever wrote

Very good!

Many famous writers have dabbled and contributed stories to the Cthulhu Mythos (the world/universe setting that all his stories are based around)

The Tomb & The Festival were 2 of the first short stories of his I read back in high school and was instantly hooked

Lovecraft was a pen pal of Robert E Howard as well!!!

Enjoy!

Hey Alek, did you ever check out Swan Song ?

http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/swan_song.html

[Alek_tq]

Nope, I did not. Thanks.

[Wunhar]

Nice topic in these forums. I'm a huge fan of Lovecraft and Howard and a collector of Weird Tales magazine. I have some stories like original HPL's story (fist time ever released): "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" from May 1941 1st print. I've seen that only one time for sale in eBay and I had to buy it :P I have also some other original prints from HPL and REH + loads of different later collections.

[Violos]

I liked "Shadow Over Innsmouth", especailly if you don't already know the context.