I've been reading a lot of the HP Lovecraft stories from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:H._P._Lovecraft and I'm really enjoying them (In before shit sux, overrated, etc.). The only problem I have is they are very short. I was wondering if there were any novels dealing with the Cthulhu Mythos that are a good read? Can someone help?
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Anonymous2007-09-05 17:42 ID:3687ppga
H.P. Lovecraft was a racist.
Go back to /x/.
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Anonymous2007-09-05 17:44 ID:/1i9pUdG
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You would think someone asking questions about books would belong on the Books text board and not in /x/.
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Anonymous2007-09-05 17:46 ID:3687ppga
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No, you would think a Lovecraftfag would go to /x/, for that is where they dwell.
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Anonymous2007-09-05 17:52 ID:/1i9pUdG
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Eat a dick. Is there anyone here who actually knows of a good novel dealing with the Cthulhu Mythos or along the same lines?
well i'm sure you can find lots of fanbooks and shit, with the cthulu roleplay and stuff. But i agree, i'm not an /x/ fag or anything, but i thoroughly enjoy the short horror stories, they are well written, spooky, and has a great way of sparking your own imagination rather than explaining how everything looks.
He has a few stories that are pretty long like At the Mountains of Madness and The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath. Both are around ninety pages or so. He's got a few others that are actually pretty long.
Also, if you like his stuff, you may also want to check out some stories by Robert E. Howard. A lot of his stories have a cthulhu-ish element to them. Probably 'cause they talked to each other a lot.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 2:53 ID:agbS58TH
Oh, I forgot to mention that there are a few books out that have Lovecraft-inspired stories in them that are pretty nifty. Two such books are "The New Lovecraft Circle" and "Cthulhu 2000."
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Anonymous2007-09-09 14:14 ID:Opyl9g9o
Lovecraft is epic win.
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Anonymous2007-09-12 13:08 ID:Pyq1aO1r
Lovecraft was a white New Englander in the 1920s. OF COURSE HE WAS A RACIST. He was also homophobic, misoginistic and anti-Semetic, but that doesn't stop one from enjoying his work.
Anyhoo, I'd like to recomend "A Night In The Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny. It's a Lovecraftian pastiche, with other turn-of-the-century literary elements thrown in, and it's quite good.
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Yeah, and he later made friends with a few black and homosexual writers as well. Hypocracy at it's finest.
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Anonymous2007-09-14 14:41 ID:mEKSNs0p
The Illuminatus! Trilogy [Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea] uses Lovecraftian mythology throughout. It's not really "about" Cthulu, but it's still something you should read.