Avoosl Wuthoqquan Wrote:
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> For the sheer pleasure of putting up a list, here
> are my favourites:
>
> * The Abominations of Yondo
> * The Door to Saturn
> * The Weird of Avoosl What’s-his-name
> * The Empire of the Necromancers
> * The Seed from the Sepulcher
> * The Double Shadow
> * The Isle of the Torturers
> * The Death of Malygris
> * The Coming of the White Worm
> * The Seven Geases (does anybody know how to
> pronounce that last word?)
> * The Treader of the Dust
Hard to argue with the above selection...
A. R. E. Susin Wrote:
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> Thanks for taking the time to reply, dudes.
>
> Perhaps I've judged Lovecraft too quickly, after
> all I read only a single collection of his...
> "Dream Cycle" or something like that (all the
> reviews kept telling me that was the Lovecraft
> book to buy), and did not finish a single story
> within it because I simply did not like the
> stories one bit; the style of writing, mainly. I
> just didn't feel it. Although the story about the
> cats was decent... So anyway, it might be I'll
> check out "At the Mountains of Madness" and some
> other ones you guys mentioned.
I'm not sure exactly which collection of HP's you speak of, but probably the best place to start is Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales:
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It's cheap and widely available and contains most of his best stories... There's also the Penguin editions, but they're more expensive, although they do contain the uncorrupted texts... However I have no idea of their respective story selections... If I was to recommend the best place to start with HP, I'd suggest 'Colour Out of Space' and 'Shadows Over Innsmouth' (both found in the book I suggested). If you don't like those, then I doubt that Lovecraft is for you...