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KharBevNor:
As I was saying in meebo last night, I think the thing about Herbert West is that Lovecraft scholarship, as a thing that won't get you laughed at by everyone else in academia, is only about ten or fifteen years old, so people who study Lovecraft are super defensive about both themselves and the old gent from Providence being taken seriously, thus they sideline Herbert West. Furthermore, it creates the supreeme annoyance of almost single-handedly destroying the neat classification of Lovecrafts writing into three periods or themes that would otherwise chime brilliantly with his lament "I have my Poe pieces and my Dunsany pieces but, alas, where are my Lovecraft pieces?" (Earlier atmospheric supernatural horrors: Poe, Dreamlands: Dunsany, Cosmic horror and mythos: Lovecraft). Scholars like neatness. Herbert West is much more of a ripping yarn than any of his other stories, and probably does suffer for that, but hey.

Btw, I hope everyone is aware of the fabulous existence of the HP Lovecraft Historical society, producers of everything from t-shirts to full length silent film versions of Lovecraft stories.

Elysiana:
I've got a buddy who is looking for a book that has specifically just the Old Ones mythos. I know you posted one that has pretty much ALL of his works (thanks!), but this guy wants one that is broken down into just the GOO stories. Any idea if that exists or where to start looking?

KharBevNor:
Pretty sure such a thing doesn't exist. That one above is the collection I've seen with the most mythos stories in it. If you want to read them online or w/e then the mythos stories written by Lovecraft are: The Nameless City, The Festival, The Colour Out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Dreams in the Witch-House, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, The Haunter of the Dark, The Thing on the Doorstep and the Case of Charles Dexter Ward. A comprehensive collection would also include the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnet cycle and A History of The Necronomicon.

What do we think of Lovecraft's poetry btw?

"Out in the mindless void the daemon bore me,
Past the bright clusters of dimensioned space,
Till neither time nor matter stretched before me,
But only Chaos, without form or place.
Here the vast Lord of All in darkness muttered
Things he had dreamed but could not understand,
While near him shapeless bat-things flopped and fluttered
In idiot vortices that ray-streams fanned.

They danced insanely to the high, thin whining
Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw,
Whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining
Gives each frail cosmos its eternal law.
"I am His Messenger," the daemon said,
As in contempt he struck his Master's head."

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 15 Dec 2010, 05:12 ---the unctuous windbag Plato
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pumped my fist in the air when i read this

Border Reiver:
Here's another site to try - lots of other authors there as well:  Howard, Poe, Stephen Leacock, Stoker

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