Happy birthday.

To the unsung hero of cosmic horror; this toke's for you.

>>15100698
Happy birthday, you racist, anti-semitic xenophobe.

>>15100956
my hero

Alright, what's everyone's favorite story?

Hands down for me is the music of Erich zann

>>15101008
Memories and the one with Houdinni, cant remenber the name.

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>Alright, what's everyone's favorite story?

Rats in the Wall.

>>15100956
gynophobic too?

>>15100698
h.g. wells?

>>15101008

Pickman's Model.

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The Lovecraft series HappyMeal© was discontinued after reports of nightmares amongst the -parents- of children that played with the toys.

>>15101041
Yes, the author of Lord of the Book of Wonders.
That one story in Narnia

>>15101008
The tomb

>>15101039
I'd also wager closet homosexual

>>15101008
Dunwich or Mountains of Madness
But holy Shit is the outsider goof

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>>15101008
Maybe Dagon for me, as it gave me nightmares the night I read it. 2spoopy

>>15101008
The Whisperer in Darkness. That story really creeped me out when I first read it. Most of his work I find entertaining, not really scary... But The Whisperer in Darkness still creeps me out when I think about it for some reason.

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>>15101008
The whisperer in darkness.
He pretty much depicted the alien abduction phenomena decades before it began.

>>15100698
he is providence

I'd go with The Thing on the Doorstep. Some call it his worst, but it's amazing. Also just re-read the Shadow Over Innsmouth a few days ago, the whole transformation concept is terrifying.

All his Dreamland cycle, that's poetic and epic.

My favorite is the short one Azathoth

>>15101008
Either "Rats in the Walls" or "Under the Pyramids" with special mention to "At the Mountains of Madness."

124 years young.

>>15100956
Yeah, thank fuck he was, or else...
NO CTHULHU

Hey y'all, what's the best book to buy about H.P Lovecraft? I see shittonnes of new collections all over the place (the new, massive, black hardcovered one) and I was wondering which would be the best to buy.

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>>15101975
I have the Necronomicon and it is ace. I recommend it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_wIshQqE0k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Tonight I shall celebrate by reading some of his works. Anyone got any cool creepy music/ambiance for this?

>>15102016
Thanks bud! Any other book I should buy after that?

>>15101975
>>15102016
I hope you know that Lovecraft never wrote a necronomicon.

>>15102135
bachs fugue of course

>>15102159
Dude we know its a modern compendium.

>>15102148
Eldritch Tales fo sho

Lovecraft stole all of his material, most of it from Alice Bailey, a christian conspiracy novel writer

i'd post a link but i don't feel like fucking around with the spam detection garbage

>>15101008

Rats in the walls, hands down. The horror isn't as direct- a man goes mad from things he glimpses and there implications about himself. And I love the Ghouls in general, and it seems pretty clear that the De La Poers are Ghoul-related.

>>15101070
Aside from tentacles, not much to diagnose him as a Gay...

He was married to a woman for a while, so I'd wager (sorry to go a bit tumblr) a romantic asexual.

>>15102696
just a plagiarizing depressed racist who was good at writing spooky nonsensical run-on sentences

>>15102713
What did he plagiarize?

>>15102726
theosophy, great ones, basically the seed of his entire mythos was stolen directly out of Alice Bailey's writings such as Dzyan

>>15101008
Herbert west reanimator

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Heard he threw a pretty sick party last weekend.
http://www.clickhole.com/article/saturdays-party-hp-lovecrafts-pad-was-insane-663

>>15102753
The fuck are you babbling about? Firstly, his works did have some Theosophic Influence, but the primary influence was prior Weird Fiction. Secondly, Theosophy wasn't written by any one man- it was free form religion with some vague ideas about nature and spirits and shit. Is Sherlock Holmes a ripoff of Theosophy?

>>15102903
>bla bla bla i'm angry and haven't actually looked into any of this

>>15101008
Picture in the house if you cut the last sentence

Rats in the walls otherwise

Fungi poems are great too

>>15102866
I heard this story was written to be more comical than his others due to it's ridiculousness, but I found it to be one of his scariest.

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Bump

>>15102866
>>15104279
For some reason I was thinking about this story all day. I'm glad I don't have to look up the name anymore. Definitely one of the scariest stories because it's potentially the most plausible.

>>15101008
The Alchemist.

>>15101008
The case of Charles Dexter Ward

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>>15101008
I'm actually quite fond of The Picture in the House.
Nyarlathotep and The Colour Out of Space are also at the top of my list.

Hell, they're mostly all great.

>>15100913
What is the definition of "unsung" in your mind?

>>15102885
Damn, was this real? Did I really miss this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIox6Z81Fw
Its a 3 parter but this one seemed most appropriate for the occasion. Enjoy :)

>>15101008
Rats in the Walls. Definitely Rats in the Walls. I love all his work though.

Even Dream Quest to Unknown Kadath.

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>>15100913
As great as Lovecraft was, he's not really an unsung hero. He's a very well sung hero.

>mfw captcha

>>15100956
He was an classist who also believed that being born into rich families made you a better person with better blood by default.

Just saying "He's a product of his time" is usually good enough, but from what's known of his life though, he seems more like someone stuck on the aspergers spectrum rather than someone with malicious intent. The only thing he hated more than other people was himself. He deeply resented anything outside of his own little routine, couldn't identify with basic human desires, especially sex. He was left alone before he was an adult when his parents died. He was crippled with self-doubt and when he wasn't being paid pittance or being rejected from publications, he withheld his writing out of fear of rejection. He died in poverty and in great pain from cancer in his forties.

happy borthday

>>15101036
"Cool Air"

It has just the right amount of pacing, creeping horror and brevity that makes it a pleasure to read compared to some of his longer stories.

>>15108251
meant to reply to
>>15101008

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>>15100956
racist and xenophobic

but anti-Semitic?

I know Lovecraft hated basically anyone who wasn't British or of British descent

but any sauce on him specifically saying 14/88 gas the kikes?

i dont care much for his silly ooga booga octopus monstor stories, but i do find him as a person fascinating, i guess b/c i somewhat relate to him? oh well who giveths a fugg habby birfday u fuggin old weirdo lol :D

>>15108362
That literal phrase? It's not impossible. Gas had been used in WWI and was widely known about. It was generally regarded as an atrocity, one of the factors than made WWI "a war to end all wars". It's more likely he would've said shot or exterminated.

In the concentration camp sense, though, no. Hitler became Chancellor in '33 (Fuhrer in '34). Lovecraft would've read about Hitler in the newspaper, maybe read some of the books on which the Nazis Aryan mysticism was based. But Lovecraft died in the 1937, and until 1939 the Nazis weren't killing Jews. Oppressing them, yes, but not much worse than had been going on since the Middle Ages. Jews were never much welcome in Christian Europe.

As for Lovecraft being anti-Semitic, that's kind of complicated. He definitely said some thing along those lines, but he had Jewish friends and his wife might have been Jewish. To me it seems like it operated on two different levels. That he hated Jews as a concept, as an ethnic bloc, but the ones he knew personally he related to as individuals.

Sort of like how a lot of 4chan is racist, but we still have Morgan Freeman and Samuel L Jackson memes. We're bothered by the faceless boogeyman of a perceived enemy group. But the guy in front of you is a person, with a name and a job and a family, same as you.

>>15101008
I really like "Dagon". It was Lovecraft's first story I read. In the beginning I didn't really like the style and everything but the more I read the more I enjoyed it and the more I started thinking back to "Dagon", especially after "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". I love drawing connections between all of his works.

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>>15101008
Colour Out of Space, Dreams in the Witch House, Cats of Ulthar.

>>15108742
Good post man, I'm glad you're here.

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>>15101008
Shadow out of Time, The Shunned House and Dunwich Horror. I -really- like the concept of invisible entities, two more of my favorite horror stories ever, The Yattering and Jack, and The Damned Thing deal with similar themes. I also really like Under the Pyramids and The Cats of Ulthar is the story I was dumping when I failed to fully clear my namefield and became an attention whore on 4chan.

I wish "they" would make The Shadow out of Time into a movie but to do it right would cost so much and be too niche.

>>15100698
Fuck that racist son of a bitch. Glad the last dying moments of his life was spent in agony.

>>15100698
How did you know it was my Birthday
>be me on my birthday on /x/ tfw you see this thread up and it's your birthday

>>15101036
COLOUR FROM OUTER SPACE

Amazing.

>>15115869
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

Reads like an epic - loved every moment of it

>>15114274

go back to tumblr and stay there.

>>15101008
The Haunter of the Dark is certainly one of my favorites

>>15108742
Also racism back then was different from how it is today. Racism back then was much more common, but it was also based less around "I WANT TO KILL ALL THE NIGGERS", and more like "I don't trust them, but as long as they stay in their part of town and don't cause trouble I'll tolerate them, I guess."

>>15116980
Lovecraft was also more or less horrified at anything alien to classical European culture and architecture as a personal problem.

>>15101008
The Alchemist because I'm a necrobro

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>>15101008
Colour out of space

The hound

Mountains of madness