Slightly Off-Topic: HPL

Jeff Wilson · 15 Oct 2008, 05:27 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:27:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL
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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!

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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