What do I read after I'm done all his stories? Also obligatory Lovecraft thread.

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I always thought the Chernobyl disaster was lovecraftian, a terrifying god of radiation just cruelly indifferent to our well being and melting anyone it touches.

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Lord Dunsany (whom Lovecraft admired and copied).

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He was deformed

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Aickman.

>>24528545
He had pvre Anglo ancestry.

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Read his story of Niggerman. It's about a niggerman who acts like a nigger. It's superfun.

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The King in Yellow, Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, the works of Lord Dunsany, and the horror stories from Poe.

If you enjoy the Dreamland stuff, add the Barsoom series and the Oz series to this list.

Boomp

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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, duh.
Have fun!

>>24528522
But it's origin is human, though.

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his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature should give you a reading list that'll occupy you for awhile

he wasn't as racist as people say, his parents named the cat and he married a jewish woman which was progressive for its time

Which story of his did you like the most?

>>24528556
whew lads, looks like namefagging is sliding off the table...again.

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Read all of Clark Ashton Smith's stories.

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He discovered he was partially Welsh and almost went insane.

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Well done, Sir.

Robert E Howard. They exchanged many letters and ideas. They never got to meet in person though. I wonder if they did and if in the middle of their discussion someone yelled "HEY HOWARD" would they both turn and look?

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Read his poems, especially the ones he wrote to commemorate some amateur journalist group, or someone he knew in Providence. Pay special attention to the poems he boasted of writing in ten minutes. Or perhaps, read his satirical poems, where he satirises some enemy he has formed in the letters to the editor column of a local newspaper. All of these will give great enjoyment.

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Howard is very interesting when you look at him from the perspective of his relationship with the weird fiction movement. He wrote plenty of horror stories that wouldn't have seemed out of place among the works of Lovecraft - the Black Stone in particular has that same languid, sordid feeling to it - but in the Vale of Lost Women there seems to be a clear break with the rest of the movement when he has Conan say that eldritch abominations have to clothe themselves in flesh to appear on Earth and can therefore be stabbed to death.

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This, he's great.

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Thomas Ligotti is an absolute gem.

Lovecraft's Monsters and Lovecraft's Creatures edited by Ellen Datlow. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos which includes many of the all-time greats. Shadows over Innsmouth edited by Stephen Jones. Conan: City of the Dead by Stephen Hocking (two Lovecraftian Conan novels)

Though the roses
Wreathe no more the garden
And the garden-dial,
Intenser grows the essence
In the vial.

>>24530500
Dunwich is my #1 I think.

>>24532445
I'm really uncertain on where to start with Ligotti. Is this his most "Lovecraftian" collection?

Thoughts on Laird Barron?

None

>>24533283
Absolutely go for "The Last Feast of the Harlequin" if you want something Lovecraftian (the story's literally dedicated to the man). I'd say Grimscribe is probably a safe bet in general. "The Sect of the Idiot" is another one somewhat reminiscent of Lovecraft.

If you want the Ligotti special, however, try "Dream of a Manikin", "The Clown Puppet
", "The Red Tower", "Our Temporary Supervisor", "The Town Manager" and "Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech", to name a few favorites. I have to admit, I struggled to appreciate him at first, he's just really, really different (when he's at his best and most unique, at least). I'm glad I persisted, though, because I keep coming back and rereading his stories all the time, they're so fucking weird and evocative.
>Is this his most "Lovecraftian" collection?
No, at least the titular story absolutely isn't. It's very Ligotti-esque, actually, but not terribly impressive in my opinion.

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read it again

The only non-Lovecraft, Lovecraftian fiction I ever actually liked was the Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

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>>24532445
For Ligotti, read his collections in order.

His first two collections, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe are the most Lovecraftian collections of his.

Teatro Grottesco is more abstract/Kafka-esque.

Search YouTube for Strange Fiction short stories, which were a major influence for Lovecraft; much of Lovecraft’s stories were just Strange Fiction.

Picrel is the best thing Ligotti’s written imo.

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What do you take it to mean?

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House of the Worm by Mearle Prout. The best Lovecraftian story not written by Lovecraft.

Picrel is my next "weird fiction" read. I'm picking up my copy from Indigo tomorrow and I'm excited lol. I'll try to find a copy of Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe like the anon^^^ rec'd, so I can read that soon, too.