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Don't know if it really matters where you start, it's all pretty ace. "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" novella is archetypal.
if you havent really read any. and want to get into it. Where should you start?
chronologically? Theres fuckin loads. Someone gimme like the first 3,4 books i should buy and read.
Don't know if it really matters where you start, it's all pretty ace. "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" novella is archetypal.
Willies.
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First one I got, fucking excellent.
"Illusions, Michael! Tricks are something a whore does for money... Or cocaine!"
This was my introduction to his work...
I've lost count the number of times I've read it.
sound sound. cheers.
I've still not read any yet I immediately in my mind decided some guy on the subway this morning had an Innsmouth look about him.
Read "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" then watch
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(or the other way around to whet your appetite)
Grab one of the omnibus editions with shit loadsa short stories. You'll get a better feel for his writing that way. Crouch End is still one of my favourite short stories that he did. The TV adaptation was shit tho
He can sometimes seem a little cliched, but that's probably because every piece of modern horror you're familiar with will be influenced by him in some way.
Oh, and he fucking loves the theme of the sins of ancestors coming back to haunt/fuck-up descendants. Almost to the point of self parody.
Still, though, minor quibbles. His stupidly verbose style is a joy. Your vocabulary will quadruple after reading Lovecraft.
Willies.
a cyclopean journey into rugose squamous depths of an eldritch noisome mind that defies non-Euclidian geometryOriginally Posted by LesMTS
ONE NATION. MANY CULTURES. ONE BEETLE.
I thought it was Stephen King that wrote Crouch EndGrab one of the omnibus editions with shit loadsa short stories. You'll get a better feel for his writing that way. Crouch End is still one of my favourite short stories that he did. The TV adaptation was shit tho
I could be very wrong and shall await a rant saying so.
I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic.
Nope just googled it and you appear to be right. Stephen King's take on the Lovecraft mythos alright
Bravery, stupidity, whatever gets the job done!
Ah, musta been in one of the compilations with stories from other writers. Strange tho, normally I cannae stand Mr Kings stuff..........I thought it was Stephen King that wrote Crouch End
I could be very wrong and shall await a rant saying so.
It was in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos edited by Ramsey Campbell
"Crouch End" by Stephen King
"The Star Pools" by A. A. Attanasio
"The Second Wish" by Brian Lumley
"Dark Awakening" by Frank Belknap Long
"Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper
"Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein
"The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes
"Than Curse the Darkness" by David Drake
"The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell
All the stories are pretty good.
I agree with you on Stephen King I normally find his novels extremely boring, although I have liked a few of his short stories.
That's the chappie. Just dug it out to check. Saves me posting the book details now
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