What is the best Lovecraft collection? Also obligatory Lovecraft thread.

>>24548757 (OP)
not a fan of that cover so not that one.

The four part Variorum Edition from Hippocampus (or Chiroptera) compiled by S.T. Joshi is the most definitive.

I've been very content with my copy of picrel. It's damn heavy though, but I read it at home so it's fine.
>>24548906
Holy shit, that looks awesome. Great illustrations.

>>24548867
>Not liking Michael Whelan

For me, it's Arkham House. Comfiest editions to exist.

>>24548906
Four part? Did Lovecraft write more while I wasn't looking? There were only 3 volumes or I'm going insaaaaane aaaaaah niggerman.....

>>24548757 (OP)
You can read all his stuff here for free
https://www.hplovecraft.com/
All his work is open domain, no need to buy a collection book
You can get free audiobooks too from youtube or librevox

>>24548757 (OP)
Do you need more?

>>24549479
For me, it's his letters

>>24549463
The 4th is a completionist volume with collaborations and revisions he did with other writers.

Picrel is the only one I have, but it's honestly pretty good as long as you're fine with it not being very portable because it's so big. Then again collections are rarely ever portable. I certainly like it way more than the B&N Shakespear and Sherlock collected works I have. The only other collections I really like are the Everyman's.

>>24549468
>You can get free audiobooks too from youtube or librevox
Right?! There's a great YT channel called HorrorBabble and the guy has done narrations for I think literally every Lovecraft story. I'll rip what I want to listen to from YT and then listen to it using my audiobook-listening app so I can slow it down to my liking. Good stuff.

>>24548757 (OP)
I love Lovecrat

>>24550220
More like LoveCRAP amirite??? xD

>>24548757 (OP)
>>24548867
Huh, did not expect that...

I'm thinking my favourite shorter Lovecraft story is The Outsider. I love the imagery of the skeletons dancing in front of the pyramids at the end.
The story he did with Harry Houdini is insanely underrated bt w.

I don't care about glam, what's the best hardcover collection with a decent sized font

>>24549479
Unfortunately this edition lacks many of his iconic short stories and the selection is pretty odd, it's like they only cared about including his novellas. Otherwise its physically very sleek.

My fav is the "Road to Madness" DelRey one, has a broad selection from across his writing career with both his more famous and more obscure short stories.

>>24548757 (OP)
Best way to start Lovecraft?

I'm interested in seeing what other authors in the scene were up to. Opinions on pic related?

The New Annotated HP Lovecraft collections are imo the best collections of his work.

On the Lovecraft topic, why does pic related miss the point and atmosphere of the original Horror at Red Hook so bad and decide to make it directly a mythos tale when the original was just a cult detective story?

>>24551892
OP's picrel.

Lovecraft's prose was pretty in his later narratives and I am sick of pretending that it was not

>>24553483
Who pretends it wasn't? I was just on my way to making a (serious) bait thread about how he has the best prose of any American author but I guess I'll contain myself here.

>>24548983
>The CAST of Charles Dexter Ward
Yikes

I haven't been scared by literature in a long time but I read Herbert West Reanimator for the first time recently and it was pretty spooky haha.

reading the shadow over innsmouth for the first time was one of my favorite reading experiences ever, i was absorbed the entire time

>>24554171
It's actually thrilling and suspenseful, which there isn't a lot of in Lovecraft's work. I haven't read everything by him but I haven't read any other story of his where the protagonist makes a prolonged and daring escape.

>>24553809
>Who pretends it wasn't?
Some people have called it purple. Neil Gayman, the jewish rapist who writes comics, has said so in an interview.

>>24554196
Gayman focuses way too hard on dialogue-driven exposition, which I can't stand; Lovecraft is a lot more subtle and features little quote-quote dialogue but rather instead often gives rundowns of conversations, and I just find it to be way more moody and enjoyable, and not exhausting like Gayman. Some will disagree I know and that's fine. I can't stand a ton of dialogue.

>>24553816
Hmm, I didn't notice that. My own copy's fine.

>>24553397
>Leslie S. Klinger
What do you get out of his annotated editions? He's done Sherlock, Dracula, Frankenstein, and now Lovecraft. What is there to even annotate in Lovecraft?

This one I got from Amazon is good.

>>24554322
>What is there to even annotate in Lovecraft?
it's mostly publication BS, i bet

>>24554322
It mostly annotates notes about real world places and history whenever the narrators list off "dark and ancient places". But there are also ones for interconnected stories such as the ones in the Dream Cycle and a lot of his Arkham stories that note when a character, place, or event from another story is referenced and where they're originally mentioned or from.

Blamls

>>24551378
wtf so this doesnt have them all?

>It can be argued that such great texts as The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness are about sex and little else, and that when Cthulhu makes one of its appearances in Lovecraft’s tales, we are witnessing a gigantic, tentacle-equipped, killer vagina from beyond space and time. I’m not trying to make light of HPL, only pointing out that if the Elder Gods are seen from a psychoanalytic standpoint, especially from the standpoint of psychoanalysis as it existed in HPL’s time, then we’re in a Freudian three-ring circus.
Brilliant from Stephen King

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>>24549132
This. Was my first print Version