Lovecraft
 

Ive been wanting to read something by him...

What are some good ones?

Call of Cthulhu

Dagon (better than the movie)
The Hound
At The Mountains of Madness
Herbert West- Reanimator

actually now that I think about it, read them all. He's the best short story writer other than Poe (who inspired Lovecraft)

Lovecraft is great. Don't limit yourself to just a story or two. Read a bunch.

Some of his public domain stories can be read online, for free, here: http://www.blackmask.com/books121c/lovecdex.htm

Enjoy!

Sam

read The Colour Out of Space. It has the best alien ever in it

The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Statement of Randolph Carter

etc..

hp lovecraft's work

At the Mountains of Madness
From Beyond
The Unnamable
The Tomb
The Rats in the Wall
The Outsider
The Lurking Fear
Dagon
The Colour out of Space
Cool Air
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Crawling Chaos
The Dunwich Horror to name but few...

Yeah, wghat they said. just pick some and read them, you wont be disappointed.

Bumping this, and re-posting what I typed in the wrong place:

My favorite HPL stories:
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
"The Call of Cthulhu"
"The Dunwich Horror"
"The Music of Erich Zann"

and my favorite would probably be

"The Shadow Out of Time"

I never really got into his "dream cycle" pieces, such as "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" and "The Silver Key". Even being as well read as I am, I cannot get through more than 30 pages of "Kadath" without getting lost as to what's happening, or becoming bored.

The Dunwich Horror is my favorite. Dagon is a close second. I haven't read a whole lot by Lovecraft, but what I have read I have enjoyed.

Cool Air was good, more science fiction than a lot fo his other stuff.

Some of his contemporaris were good too. Clark Ashton Smith is quite good also.

I'd have to go with either "The Dunwich Horror" or "The Colour Out of Space" as far as his short stories go. The novella "At the Mountains of Madness" is also awesome.

Wow...friggin old thread!

I havnt got around to reading much of his stuff, only Dagon and part of Reanimator. But what Ive read is damn good!

Although a HUGE, lifelong fan of horror fiction, I'll be the first to admit that my resume is extremely limited in regards to the old classics. I just barely got through FRANKENSTEIN & DRACULA as a kid & although I tried to be well rounded by working my way through some of the other seminal classics of the genre, I just never could seem to get interested in the archaic writing styles & the turgid pacing of the vast majority of the "old masters". They just didn't "work" for me.
But, the one "old timer" whose work I DID take to & quickly grow to love & admire, was Lovecraft's. Although still not yet a completest of his work, I have read most of it ( some of his stories SEVERAL times ) & I definitely have my favorites.
#1 on my H.P.L. list is DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE. So much so that my two beloved pets are a cat named Keziah Mason & a black rat named Brown Jenkin.

pretty much all that was said, but lets not forget the shadow out of time, the haun ter of the dark, and the dream quest of unknown kadath