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Brannigan's Law · 25th April 2009, 12:15pm

This compilation is a pretty good introduction to Lovecraft:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/01...pt#reader-page

Its got some pretty interesting and insightful commentaries/notes accompanying each story, which helps with some of the denser sections..

And yeah, the short stories are the best places to start - fairly quick flashes of weirdness that kinda linger in your thoughts like some half-remembered nightmare

MarkMono · 25th April 2009, 1:31pm

The 'At The Mountains Of Madness' omnibus will keep you going for a good few weeks.

**Shannow** · 25th April 2009, 1:33pm

Here, i jsut realised i have a complete works downloaded as a bunch of text files that I'd totally forgotten about.

Zooropa · 25th April 2009, 5:03pm

Yeah I read a bunch of his stuff online a few years ago.

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

sjonit · 25th April 2009, 5:06pm

theres a sweet lovecraft torrent on piratebay, got all his books and shit.

dont think its allowed to link to it, so swatch it yerselfs.

MarkMono · 25th April 2009, 5:22pm

Annoys the fuck out of me that I can't read books on the PC. Really starts to hurt my eyes after a while.

**Shannow** · 25th April 2009, 6:31pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Annoys the fuck out of me that I can't read books on the PC. Really starts to hurt my eyes after a while.

Try changing the refresh rate on your screen.
Also, white test on black backing seems to help, along with finding a suitably clear font.

And if you're REALLY sneaky, you can hit the middle mouse button till it bring up the scrolly thing, move it down ever so slightly so the screen scrolls just enough that you never really have to mover your eyes away from the middle of the screen. Ultimate laziness.

Radiohead · 26th April 2009, 2:33pm

Aparently, Lovecraft was a big fan of another of my favourite authors, M.R. James, to the extent that he ran a fanzine for said author. They share similar themes/plots, ie an academic investigates an artifact/ancient myth/ruins etc and comes a cropper. Although M.R. James allows his protagonists to live every now and again.

beshemoth · 26th April 2009, 2:35pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zooropa

Yeah I read a bunch of his stuff online a few years ago.

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

Sweet! There's some there I have never read. Nice one!

Zooropa · 3rd May 2009, 5:44pm

I love how much free-to-read stuff there is online from texts that are now public domain.
In an old job where I had fuck all to do I read the entire works of HG Wells.

Eulonima · 3rd May 2009, 5:48pm

another vote for the "madness" stuff and Shadow over innsmouth here

beshemoth · 22nd May 2009, 4:05pm

Actually, for a really basic introduction, I've just found reference to this primer: My First Necronomicon

Evapilotone · 1st July 2009, 12:22pm

I'll be looking into his works as well I think. I've been meaning to for quite some time. It just seems so bloody big and complicated. Especially with there being so many books on offer.

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