H.P. lovecraft

what does /book/ think about him? what book of his are worth reading? (if any)

he's decent. terrible dialogue most of the time, but he has some p cool stories. check out The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath or The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Best thing to come out of horrendous xenophobia.

He's awesome, i'm currently reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and i'm really enjoying it.

I'm really picky when it comes to stories I like, and I was expecting Poe version 2.0 when I picked up Lovecraft, but his shit is bananas. He might be my favorite author.

Just read this and you'll get a pretty good understanding of what his writing is like:
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.2723/sec./

Looks like a lot of his stories can be read online for free.

H.P. Lovecraft was a racist

Read ``At the Mountains of Madness''.

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Currently reading this out loud to Merzbow.

Arkham House publishes a fantastic three volume set of all his work. I recommend starting with The Dunwich Horror and Others, because it contains some of his best stories.

http://www.arkhamhouse.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=arkhamhouse&Product_Code=0-87054-037-8

What >>2 said, except he didn't mention Lovecraft is a terrible, terrible prosaic. Sick things he used to imagine were oftentimes pretty cool - cool enough to be relevant even today - but he himself was devoid of any literary talent. Lovecraft was no writer at all and his prose is horrid throughout.

>>5
All of his stuff can be read for free online, because it's all in the public domain.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Lovecraft

I've read only Dagon so far, but I liked it and will read at least a few other short stories too.

The short story "The Colour out of Space" is probably one of his finest. I also enjoyed the "The Call of Cthulhu", traditionally seen as his best work.