>>7462857
If you read chronologically you'll be fine. I don't think he ever wrote any prequels to his works himself.

just read the fucking book

chronologically you'd be OK fine. but if you want a loose recommendation on some of the mythos related stories to read, here is an order:

Dagon
Call of Cthulu
The Shadow Out of Time
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Mound
At the Mountains of Madness

Can read other short stories in between, but I wouldn't read Mountains of Madness prior to Dagon, for example.

Unrelated, but The Colour Out of Space is best Lovecraft.

>>7462857
He's a pulp author, not a German idealist philosopher. You can read it however you like.

>>7463378
There's no continuity between the stories? I know he's a pulp writer but I remember reading there is some light continuity between stories. I'd prefer to be able to pick up on it.

>>7463396
either way you read it, you'll pick up on it...

>>7463423
I rather understand what the author is talking about as I read, rather than retroactively.

>>7463465
you always understand something retroactively... the beginning only makes sense after you've read the end.

and what is rereading

>>7463531
I hear what you're saying but I still see no reason not to read in the intended order. It will make sense either way, yeah, but I like to understand along the way as the author wrote it.

>>7463656
there is no intended order. unless the author puts the works in a series, it doesn't matter.