I got a book with his complete literature, recommendations? I liked Call of Cthulu, but I felt like Colour Outside of Space was better.
If you liked Colour, try
>The Whisperer in Darkness
>The Haunter in the Dark
first
Then
>The Thing on the Doorstep
>The Dunwich Horror
>The Rats in the Walls
Then his longer stuff (Mountains of Madness) or his dream cycle stuff depending what you like
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>>9597187
Also check out Wayne June's readings if you like audiobooks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xxGopjMbY
>>9597172
So many times I open up /lit/, and what I've just been reading is at the top. I must just be reading very popular authors. But it's getting weird.
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>>9597235
I miss licking my ex's doc martens
>>9597235
Lustful
>>9597172
I very recently went through the complete fiction again and rated the stories on a scale of zero to three stars, where zero is unremarkable and 3 is essential reading.
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>>9597248
>>9597255
For ease, a list of the top picks (chronological):
- Dagon
- The Outsider
- The Rats in the Walls
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- The Dunwich Horror
- The Whisperer in Darkness
- At the Mountains of Madness
- The Shadow over Innsmouth
If that's too many, just try Dunwich, Whisperer, and Innsmouth.
>>9597172
Colour out of space is his best work, it only goes downhill for the most
>>9597172
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/sources/ccmt.aspx
Dagon
Nyarlathotep
The Nameless City
Azathoth
The Hound
The Festival
The Call of Cthulhu
The Colour out of Space
History of the Necronomicon
The Curse of Yig
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Mound
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Man of Stone
The Horror in the Museum
The Thing on the Doorstep
Out of the Aeons
The Tree on the Hill
The Shadow out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
*Original Dates of Publication
>>9597324
ah, I didn't include the "revisions" and "collaborations" in my list
>>9597324
also, the Night Ocean should be on here
>>9597248
>sweet ermengarde
>unremarkable
how could you be so pleb?
>>9597335
>the Night Ocean
The Night Ocean isn't his story. He wrote maybe 10% of it and the rest is R. H. Barlow. He says so himself in his letters and Joshi confirms it.
>>9597187
Mountains of Madness still gives me nightmares contemplating