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I'm setting up a Call of Cthulhu game and I'm reading through Lovecraft's entire collection in order to get some inspiration.
Now that I'm almost done reading the book I'm left wondering what else could I read that, might help me work on the story and setting.
Are Chaosium's Cycle books worth it? Do you have any suggestions aside from those books /lit/?
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>>8503537
the shadow over innsmouth is good
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>>8503543
Its included in the complete collection I bought.
Right now I'm considering getting The Best of Damon Knight, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers and The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.
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>>8503537
William Hope Hodgson's The House On The Borderland is another piece of cosmic horror, the most well-known in the niche outside of Lovecraft. For a crude idea of what it's like, imagine an old timey Evil Dead meets the end of the world.
Then there are Lovecraft's peers, Robert E Howard being the most famous. He uses Lovecraftian elements (first person narrators, bookish protagonists, forbidden tomes of knowledge) while being more action-oriented e.g. The Black Stone, The Children Of The Night. Howard is very into depicting primordial cults and diabolical religious rites gratuitously.
If you want to go deep, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote some weird tales kind of stuff. His short story, The Terror Of The Blue John Gap, is a lot like a Lovecraft story. Here, a sickly doctor takes a walking holiday in the English countryside, and encounters an old Roman mine which is feared by locals.
I feel that between Lovecraft, Hodgson, Howard, and perhaps Conan Doyle, you will have a sense of the weird it aesthetic.
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>>8503564
I loved the king in yellow but I'm unsure of how much it could contribute to your game. Definitely an essential read in the genre though.
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>>8503537
Ubbo- Sathla (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Opener of the Way and Mysteries of the Worm ( Robert Bloch)
The Book of the Law ( Aleister Crowley)
Contemporary authors Thomas Ligotti and Peter Straub, Laird Barron
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>>8503578
How old are you CS?
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>>8503583
Hastur and Byakhees are featured in the core rulebook, so some knowledge of how they operate would certainly help.
Hence my reference to the Chaosium Cycle books, since they tend to have compilations of stories regarding a specific being.
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Celephais is my favourite story. Also The cats of ulthar. Dreamlands are a good place to set it, no?
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Never read Lovecraft but tell me about Mistakonic University.
All of Lovecraft's works take place in the same universe, right?
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