What are some of the best cosmic horror stories? I just finished

>>8010163
Other Hodgson stuff, of course (In TheNight Land is good), plus maybe The King in Yellow?

>>8010311
I read he got blown up in WWI

>>8010163
William Hope Hodgson wrote about a dozen short stories for his character Carnacki, a ghost finder/supernatural/occult detective. They are all collected in one volume by Wordsworth.

But I suspect you would enjoy some of Robert Howard's short stories. He was a peer and correspondent of Lovecraft's and prone to mimicking him in a more crude, comic-book fashion. Lots of barbarous tribes, strange deities, and magical objects - and the necronomicon.

There are several collections out there. One short story I will recommend in particular is 'Black Stone.' I suggest that this story's detail of a tribal sacrifice for a reptilian god would make many 4chan users feel queasy

>>8010311
On the one hand, The Night Land is incredible; on the other hand, the pseudo-archaic Ye Olden Dayes diction renders it almost unreadable. Give it a try, I guess.

>>8010452
Yes, and his biography is interesting in itself. joined the Royal Navy, opened a body building school (he would surely have browsed /fit and was a keen writer on physical fitness) had a run-in with Harry Houdini, enlisted as an infantryman during the Great War and died at Ypres after spurning a mandatory medical discharge.