/lit/ - Literature

the one where an eldritch oceanic creature drives a random guy mad

>>5385353
Pickman's model.

at the mountains of madness

the shadow over innsmouth.

>>5385355
joke's on you, that's only like three of them

The Colour out of Space

like The Lurking Fear and The Doom that came to Sarnath a lot as well

>>5385371
1. CoC
2. Dagon
3. ???

>>5385353

Dunwich Horror

I never really liked Lovecraft that much. His concepts were always awesome, but the actual execution of the stories was often very mediocre.

The Music of Eric Zann is my favorite of his though. It had the perfect balance between over exposing the horror and keeping it too vague.

>The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little

>but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Did anyone not think of the internet when they read that?

I've got a couple I really like

>Pickman's Model
>The Doom That Came To Sarnath
>The Statement of Randolph Carter

>>5385389
Cthulu confirmed for prophetic metaphor for the internet.

I havn't read lovecraft since I was 13. umm, the pit and the pendulum was pretty good.

>>5385389
I didn't but it's an interesting thought. I think though that the correlation he's talking about isn't an actual possible experience, and to think it is is to misinterpret our conceptual faculties. There can be no 'infinity' in our thought, only finite segments of relations.

>>5385396
That's Poe you eejit

>>5385396

>>5385401
I know, i was seeing if anyone would take bait. My real favorite is the one with the snake god and odd eludes to sex.

>>5385396

>>5385353
the haunter in the dark
perfect tension, timing, atmosphere and suspense

i also have a soft spot for the rats in the walls

>>5385409
>I was pretending to be retarded

the Curse of Yig?

>>5385422
yeah that's it.
I just remember he got really detailed with the wriggling snake tails and slimy shit coming in and raping women and it made me go fap to snake r34 and then I felt like a weirdo.

>>5385426
>lovecraft
>writing sex scenes
yeah right

>>5385429
Well, he more or less eluded to it.

>>5385431
its 'alluded'
eluded means escaped or avoided

>>5385436
wow, I'm a shitlord. sorry

The Shunned House or The Dunwich Horror. I like the invisible demon aspect. The Shadow out of Time is also pretty cool for the descriptions of The Great Race.

>>5385443
lol i was just letting you know in case you didnt

>>5385443
>>5385447
>shitlord
>lol

>>5385445
have you read haunter in the dark?
it's got an invisible monster too

The Outsider.

The Temple and The Festival are also p. good.