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>> No.10189447

>>10189443
Have you read Dracula?

>> No.10189456

>>10189443
yeah, in 9th grade english. read some thomas ligotti.

>> No.10189479

>>10189443
The King In Yellow, Great God Pan, The Willows. His major influences were Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Poe, Lord Dunsany. Any of these are a good bet.

>> No.10189486

Read The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood, ideally on a cold rainy day, pretty sure there's a good audiobook version on youtube.

>> No.10189501

Conan the Cimmerian

>> No.10189508

Christabel by Samuel Coleridge

>> No.10189517

>>10189479
You can get all these for free on Project Gutenberg.


House on the Borderlands, by William Hope Hodgson is pretty cool and another favourite of Lovecraft's.

>> No.10189908

An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce

>> No.10190021

M.R. James is the biggest influence on Lovecraft IMO. Lovecraft basically took his ghost story formula ('naively rational' old-fashioned academic stumbles onto ancient and evil knowledge, continues to deny the supernatural until he is forced to face it directly in an explosive climax) but injected the climax and history with his own unique imagery and interest in science. The basic narrative structure (death by a thousand insinuations that progressively build in horribleness) is an imitation of James, not Poe, who was more of a stylistic influence

>> No.10190029

>>10189486
The Wendigo builds a *really* nice creep/comfy mood. The climax wasn't as scary as I might have liked, but the ride to the ending was B+/A

Blackwood's The Willows is generally more highly regarded than The Wendigo - probably because the concept of the story is more original and striking -- from a critical perspective, it's a more 'notable' work of weird fiction. And The Willows *is* a good story. But I prefer The Wendigo. It got my creep on in a way The Willows did not.

>recommend me books like H.P. Lovecrafts
Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch is directly influenced by Lovecraft, as are many early RB stories (the young RB corresponded at length with Lovecraft).

This is a "meat and potatoes" horror story, but it gets the job done. It's a compelling narrative that builds to a nice, stormy climax. Solid horror storytelling.

This is a scan of the story as it appeared in a 1951 issue of Weird Tales:
>https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/usa-pdfs/NotebookFoundInADesertedHouseByRobertBloch.pdf

>> No.10190385

Clark Ashton Smith. His stuff is on the internet for free if you want to try here:
eldritchdark.com

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>> No.10192011

>>10189447
Recently read it for the first time. I fucking loved it!

>> No.10192023

Is Clive Barker any good?

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>>10192023
Some of his stuff is pretty good (Books of Blood, Cabal and The Hellbound Heart). But he also has his fair share of duds (Mister B. Gone, The Scarlet Gospels and Coldheart Canyon).

>> No.10194408

>>10190385
>Clark Ashton Smith
good stuff

>> No.10194842

The writer with the tone closest to Lovecraft is Clark Ashton Smith. Added bonus: his prose is enormously superior to Lovecraft (who I do enjoy, don't get me wrong)

>> No.10194843

>>10191015
>people put their actual names on this