I'm really interested in the whole universe of the Great Old Ones Lovecraft created, but I really don't know where to start. He has a lot of (short) stories and supposedly a lot of them aren't all that great, either.
Do anyone have experience with pic related or general tips for a newbie?
Here you go, old boy!
I have that edition and it's great.
>>7885647
Oh, I guess this is what I was looking for. My google search was more than lacking, it seems. Thanks a lot!
I skimmed over the contents, and it looks like the most important things are in there. But technically, there's no need to buy it, because you can read most of his works here: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/ completely for free and legally.
>>7885642
Im also looking to get into lovecraft.
should i get OP's pic related or
this?
i like OPs but i would like to know if either one has more stories or something.
>>7885642
>Where to start?
Don't
>>7885682
i started reading there but id rather own the book. theres just something about owning and reading a physical book.
>>7885642
just read through the Necronomicon
>>7886444
I have that and this and it has everything he's ever written. I'm glad I started with the Necronomicon though, the ordering and pacing of the stories made it a bit easier to read.
>>7885647
>recommending Dream Quest
>ever
How about some Color Out Of Space up in this bitch
Sleep Quest was boredom incarnate.
>>7885642
dagon, shadow over insmouth, the dunwich horror, the case of charles dexter ward, the whisper in darkness, the thing on the doorstep, under the pyramids, the color out of space, the lurking fear, rats in the walls, the call of cthulhu, the doom that came to sarnath
>>7886477
not the guy who posted that but the ending was great. it was the last story in my book too, so it was kinda nice to end on that note after almost a thousand pages of madness.
>>7886491
also herbert west-reanimator, the nameless city, the music of erich zann
I recommend getting the the penguin classics 3 volumes of lovecraft that's probably the best collection it doesn't bring all his stories but it has all the good and memorable ones http://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Stories-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0141182342
Don't start. Lovecraft is terrible. Overrated. Reddit-tier.
>>7886787
I liked the short stories in this book. Tried reading some Lovecraft but couldn't get into it. Apparently is part of the shared "Cthulhu Mythos" universe.
The yellow King by Robert chambers is neat and one of HPs inspirations
>>7886787
you must be insecure
I can't stand his cynicism.
There is this one sci-fi story he did where someone gets trapped in a maze on another planet. The Walls of Erich, or something like that?
Gave me claustrophobia.
>>7887822
In the Walls of Eryx. One of the last things he wrote actually, and pretty good.
>all these good Lovecraft stories
>absolutely zero mention of Sweet Ermengarde or Ibid
The man had a sense of humor, as much as people like to say otherwise.
The Music of Erich Zann is my favorite so far
Going to start the cthulu shit soonish
Is Lovecraft worthwhile if I loved bloodborne, also, which is the best complete works book to buy?
>>7890769
Yes
Look above, some Anons posted links already.
Am I the only one who likes Pickman's Model?
Page 10 bump.
On his disgust for society
>"Today more than ever, Lovecraft would be a misfit and a recluse. Born in 1890, he appeared already to his contemporaries, in his younger years, an out-of-date reactionary. One can easily guess what he would have thought of today’s society. After his death, it hasn’t stopped evolving in directions that would have made him detest it more than ever. Mechanisation and modernization have ineluctably destroyed the way of life to which he was attached with every fibre of his being [...] The ideas of liberty and democracy, which he abhorred, have spread over the planet. The idea of progress has become an uncontested credo, almost unconscious, which can only bristle at a man who declares: “What we detest, is simply change in and of itself” . Liberal capitalism has exerted its dominance over consciousness; marching in time with it have been commercialism, advertising, the absurd grinning cult of economic efficiency, the exclusive and immoderate appetite for material riches. Even worse, liberation has reached from the economic to the sexual domain. All sentimental fictions have been shattered into a thousand pieces. Purity, chastity, fidelity, decency, have become ridiculous stigmata. The value of a human being is measured today by his economic efficiency and his erotic potency: so, exactly the two things that Lovecraft hated the most strongly"
p.34
