Authors similar to HP Lovecraft

there arent any worthwhile after lovecraft but you might enjoy some of them from the past 70 years.

>>9685031
Clark Ashton Smith.

>>9685031
Robert E Howard had some good ones in Lovecraft's vein.

Check out "The Black Stone"

>>9685054
not really lovecraftian. he has more in common with the arabian nights and poe.

>>9685057
even at his most lovecraftian, robert e howard is only 5% lovecraftian.

if you're looking for modern stuff, i'd recommend laird barron or thomas ligotti. avoid st joshi's anthologies; he might be an expert on lovecraft, but the man is a lousy editor and many of his favorite neo-Lovecraftians are awful.

>>9685031

Aside from Ligotti, no idea m8, sorry

>>9685077
So Lovecraft is a one in a billion author? Sucks, the horror of the unknown and that there might be beings far above our own comprehension that can wipe us out of existence in an instant is my favorite type of horror.

>>9685108
I'd still go with Clark Ashton Smith like >>9685054 suggested. He has eldritch creatures too, but he writes them in a way pretty unique from Lovecraft. This isn't a bad thing though, I bet you'd be pretty interested in how Smith's creatures are presented against Lovecraft's creatures.

Also Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith knew each other and set their stories in a shared universe. LC's Cthulhu exists in the same world as Smith's Zhothaqquah

>>9685153
I'll surely be checking him out then.

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>>9685031
Read all/any of these.

Dunsay, obviously

>>9685209
Thanks for this anon, I just ordered a couple of those books off of Amazon. Can't wait to read them.

>>9685264
Sure thing. Glad to spread the love for cosmic horror.