Hi /lit/! I'm new here. I have (and adore) all of Lovecraft's

why do you like that guy's stories? personally, I find them corny. explain yOURSELF!

Bump. I am interested in this myself, anon. I have some ideas but they are not nearly as straightforward as simply telling recommending a book that has "Lovecraftian" elements.

you could try more machen, also bierce then robert w. chambers, laird barron, anything that references carcosa in the title. robert shearman and ligotti if you want more contemporary feeling stuff.

oh and going backwards from machen and that, towards fairies rather than spooks, lord dunsany & spenser's fairie queen might appeal

>>9877039
Ligotti is great.

"A Colder War" by Charles Stross
"Dark Awakenings" by Matt Cardin
"Divinations of the Deep" by Matt Cardin
"Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner

Laird Barron might interest you too.

>>9877067
Forgot to add, The White People by Machen if you haven't read it.

It isn't Lovecraftian but I think you may enjoy Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol too. You can imagine what it's like from the title and it's only a short story.

Since you're new, I don't know if you know about http://libgen.io

They should have the books we've mentioned if you want to try them.

Robert Chambers and M.R. James are next on the list after Lovecraft and Machen. But don't neglect Dunsany and Derleth.

Ligotti and Clark Ashton Smith. Both are better writers than Lovecraft. Also, try and read Maupassant's The Horla, it's quite probably the best horror story along with Blackwood's The Willows

Clark Ashton Smith wrote all the best mythos stories, in my opinion. The Door to Saturn, and The Empire of the Necromancers are two of my favorite stories of his.

>>9877076
The White People is straight up my favourite thing from the entire genre and class of writers. That is a good fucking story.

Thanks to all, guys.
My original answer to >>9876693 and >>9876727 didn't get uploaded due to connection problems, but to sum it up, I really love how Lovecraft's creatures have a psychological effect on their victims: he explains with detail the feelings of terror and impotence of the men who meet them. More modern horror stories that I've read before didn't really gave too much weight on the traumas such encounters could give to the victims, and that was a nice discovery when I started reading Lovecraft.
Add that to the fact that the debatable mental sanity of the narrators leave you with many questions about the verdicity of what they say (and I really like when a book leaves you thinking about it even once you've finished it), the amount of diverse creatures he came out with, with his own "cryptozoology"... I can totally see why one wouldn't like them, it's my kind of things though.

>>9877092
Thanks! Bookmarking it. I've been trying to begin reading in English lately to improve in it (it's not my first language) but I didn't really know where to look at. This site seems golden.

>>9877055
That's fantastic, I really like stories about fairies. Definitely going to check it out. Thanks!

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Thank you all for your suggestions! Gonna have a quality time with all of these stories to read. =)