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JD:
So I followed Butt's advice and bought HP Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction, which is a 1000 page heap of a book. Where should I start?

Tom:
In a nice sunny place, preferably not in New England.

Buttfranklin:

--- Quote from: JD on 18 Jul 2011, 22:48 ---So I followed Butt's advice and bought HP Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction, which is a 1000 page heap of a book. Where should I start?

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Well, depends on how dedicated you are.

I started at the beginning and made it through 2/3rds of the book.  I liked starting at the beginning and reading his stories in chronological order since you can see how his writing developed over the years, and how his ideas lead him from one story to another.

Here are the must reads:

The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Lurking Fear
The Call of Cthulhu
At the Mountains of Madness

I haven't read The Colour Out of Space, but I've heard it's good.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is not horror in the least, but I thought it was fun.

Some short, good ones to read are:
Cool Air
Pickman's Model

Otherwise, I recommend skipping Herbert West Re-animator.  That was dreadful and awful.  I hated it.

valley_parade:

--- Quote from: Buttfranklin on 19 Jul 2011, 16:12 ---Some short, good ones to read are:
Cool Air
Pickman's Model
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This got lost when my old MacBook died, but I did this really fucked up experiemental noise/ambient/drone metal thing where Roddy read the whole of Cool Air and I put loud guitar dronings and feedback over it.

Buttfranklin:

--- Quote from: Jeans on 20 Jul 2011, 01:11 ---Also make sure you get through The Rats InThe Walls and The Music of Eric Zahn.

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Oh yeah!  I liked the latter one (Eric Zann, btw) a lot.  Former one is very good, also.  Thanks for reminding me of these!

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