Where do I get started with HP Lovecraft and his mythos? What

>>8386582
You can read all the stuff for free, just get the collected works in PDF and read a story at a time. They are sorted chronologically, so it's easy to follow the evolution of his work if you really want to read all of it.

Not all of it is good, though. It gets verbose and repetitive fast. There are some gems nevertheless.

If you wanna read only the best, then you pretty much can start with Dagon,The Call of Cthulhu, The Rats in the Walls, At the Mountain of Madness, and The Shadow over Innsmouth. There are just a few, but they're a decent start.

The 'mythos' was Derleth's hack cash-in. From him on it dissolves into screwy classifications and false religiosity. You can't map it out like human religion - that was the mistake, it doesn't follow a pattern. What lent it so well to the short story form was spontaneity: a freak earthquake and dreams, stray ships, remnants at the edge of the world, missed trains, etc. Glimpses. Derleth et al. played out the cult element.

>>8386664
useless

>>8386614
You're an idiot, first of all you shouldn't be spoonfeeding the summerfag. Second of all, your recommendations suck balls.

>>8386614
>Dagon
>One of the best
If we're talking one if the very short stories as an intro, The Nameless City is better, you've allusions to stuff that appears in other stories and the basis of themes that were more developed in later stories.

>>8386686
shut the fuck up you autistic faggot

>>8386683
Jesus, you added less than me.

>>8386701
>contributing to a thread that only deserves shitposting

>>8386686
>If we're talking one if the very short stories as an intro, The Nameless City is better

I second this

>>8386614
Thanks

>>8386582
>THIS THREAD AGAIN