>>25117327
Could we stop with these threads and actually read the author?

Only after POE

>>25117645
I'm a big fan of HPL and haven't read a single word of Poe.

>>25117327
Yes definitely but there is no real stand out work you sort of have to get into his ethos to appreciate him and that has not that much to do with the reddit definition of lovecraftian

>>25117327
Always.

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YES.
I’ve been reading him for almost twenty years, and while I’ve left other authors from my adolescence behind, he’s still one of my favorites.
Last year, for example, I received a collection of short stories and novellas by the following authors: Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. P. Lovecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Machen, Robert W. Chambers, M. R. James, and F. Marion Crawford.

There were two Lovecraft stories in that collection, and both were the best in the entire set. As long as you’re not someone who only cares about characters (women and fag menchildren), you’ll like him.

>>25117327
I'd personally highly recommend him, just don't go into the stories thinking you'll be reading the next Charles Dickens. This is fun, spooky, pulp-level work and you should enjoy it as such.
I went through his entire works all at once a good few years back during a lazy Summer and enjoyed the vast majority.

While I agree that a lot of his sentences and overall prose can feel very unrefined or even amateurish at times, his ideas of cosmic horror were revolutionary, especially for the time.

Most people seem to agree on what his standout works are like 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' and 'Call of Cthulhu' but I actually really like a lot of his smaller works that seem to be overlooked like 'Under the Pyramids', 'The Rats in the Walls' and 'The Temple'.

He's one of the few authors I liked enough to read everything, and his atmospheric style of horror was right up my alley.

>>25117360
Face it, uncs, we live in an age of information overload. We ain't got time to sit through an author's works only to find out their bad.

>wooooah a heckin space monster with tentacools
not a fan of these things

>>25118024
Bait or just an idiot?

>>25117327
Yes. And most of his stories are like 3 to 6 pages long. You dont even have to commit.

>It was too horrible to describe
Just read Borges.

>>25118083
>It was too horrible to describe
lmao I am going to use this trick

>>25118083
Borges was a pathetic, envious man. Every author he detested was a better author than himself, see Joyce.

>>25118088
Okay, whatever you say. Pussyass, bitchass faggot NIGGUH!