Slightly Off-Topic: HPL

Adam Thornton · 15 Oct 2008, 03:30 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:30:08 -0500
Subject: (urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL
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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
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