# Slightly Off-Topic: HPL *The Urth list — 7 messages, 6 voices, 14 Oct 2008* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ryan Bonneville *14 Oct 2008, 23:42* Hi all, I finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for background. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of tenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order? Best, Ryan --- ### Matthew Keeley *15 Oct 2008, 01:19 · in reply to Ryan Bonneville* > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville > wrote: > Hi all, > > I finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for background. > There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of tenuously connected. > Any suggestions for a reading list or order? > > Best, > Ryan (Implicit Spoilers for An Evil Guest) - - - - - - - - - - - The most obviously relevant stories are probably "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Whisperer in Darkness", and "Nyarlathotep". You might want to look at some of the Randolph Carter stories - "The Statement of Randolph Carter" and "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadadath". (I haven't read "Dream Quest" myself, but people tell me it's somewhat important to the Lovecraft canon.. and it features Randolph Carter, who may or may not be referenced in AEG) If you want to go a bit further, I'm a great fan of "The Rats in the Walls", "The Outsider", and "The Nameless City" (the last of which scared me half to death when I was nine or ten). http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html -Matt --- ### Adam Thornton *15 Oct 2008, 03:30 · in reply to Ryan Bonneville* > On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville wrote: > Hi all, > > I finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for > background. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of > tenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order? In no particular order, off the top of my head, *I* think the really good stuff is: _The Call of Cthulhu_ _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ _At the Mountains of Madness_ "Pickman's Model" "The Rats In The Walls" "The Color Out Of Space" "The Dreams In The Witch-House" "The Thing On The Doorstep" "The Dunwich Horror" No doubt other people will add their picks, and I will say "Oh! Yeah! Wish I'd remembered *that* one!" Adam --- ### Jeff Wilson *15 Oct 2008, 05:27 · in reply to Adam Thornton* > Adam Thornton wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for >> background. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of >> tenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order? > In no particular order, off the top of my head, *I* think the really > good stuff is: > > _The Call of Cthulhu_ > _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ > _At the Mountains of Madness_ > "Pickman's Model" > "The Rats In The Walls" > "The Color Out Of Space" > "The Dreams In The Witch-House" > "The Thing On The Doorstep" > "The Dunwich Horror" > > No doubt other people will add their picks, and I will say "Oh! Yeah! > Wish I'd remembered *that* one!" _The Whisperer In Darkness_ stands out as somewhat Wolfean, with unreliable or downright mendacious narrators, cryptic nested epistolary stories, and alien conspiracies. Jolly good ambiguous fun! ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` --- ### Fred Kiesche *16 Oct 2008, 01:47 · in reply to Ryan Bonneville* Some of my personal favorites are listed below. You can get them in the single-volume set from Library of America and multiple trade and mass market paperback collections. They are also all available online from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.net and other sources. The Call of Cthulhu At the Mountains of Madness The Whisperer in Darkness The Color Out of Space The Shadow Out of Time The Music of Eric Zahn ...and many others, but those ought to get you started! F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok! --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Ryan Bonneville wrote: From: Ryan Bonneville Subject: (urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL To: urth at lists.urth.net Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 7:42 PM Hi all, I finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for background. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of tenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order? Best, Ryan --- ### Fred Kiesche *16 Oct 2008, 01:49 · in reply to Adam Thornton* What he said on the ones I did not mention. Long day, early morning, not enough coffee.. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok! --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Adam Thornton wrote: From: Adam Thornton Subject: Re: (urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 11:30 PM > On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville wrote: > Hi all, > > I finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for > background. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort > of > tenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order? In no particular order, off the top of my head, *I* think the really good stuff is: _The Call of Cthulhu_ _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ _At the Mountains of Madness_ "Pickman's Model" "The Rats In The Walls" "The Color Out Of Space" "The Dreams In The Witch-House" "The Thing On The Doorstep" "The Dunwich Horror" No doubt other people will add their picks, and I will say "Oh! Yeah! Wish I'd remembered *that* one!" Adam_______________________________________________ --- ### Stanisław Bocian *17 Oct 2008, 16:45 · in reply to Ryan Bonneville* An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ---