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Life after Lovecraft
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:47 pm
by jp
Since pretty soon I'll be finished catching up on my initial Lovecraft readings, I was just wondering what other authors/stories you guys would recommend that either concern the "Cthulhu Mythos" or are just similar to Lovecraft? I'm already going to check out some of his early proteges (Bloch mainly, I gather I should stay as far away from Derleth as possible), but outside of them, does anyone do the Cthulhu Mythos justice?
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:48 pm
by Yog-Sothoth
August Derleth.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:51 pm
by Jesus Prime
Clark Ashton Smith.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:55 pm
by jp
Jesus Prime wrote:Clark Ashton Smith.
Ah, yes. I was intending to look up his stuff as well! Glad to know he does the work justice!
Yog-Sothoth, you really recommend August Derleth? Most places I've gone to in search of Lovecraft information seem to despise him and his work...
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:55 pm
by Jesus Prime
It's not that Derleth is badly written, it's that it badly planned.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:12 pm
by Yog-Sothoth
yeah, its like Jeeps work.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:32 pm
by Jesus Prime
Strange, that comes from a guy whose only output was so unintelligible it gave me a minor stroke.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:57 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
Derleth sucks. Read R.E. Howard's horror tales.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:00 pm
by Jesus Prime
He did horror? I've only ever heard of the Conan stuff.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:03 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
I don't think he wrote a lot of horror, but the tales he did are pretty good. I don't recall any of them being explicitly mythos, but they fit right in.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:17 pm
by Jesus Prime
I'll have a look for some books. Anything you'd recommend.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:47 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
I had one collection of his mythos/horror stories back in the early '90s called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Apparently, it's no longer in print, but Chaosium has a larger collection in Nameless Cults.
Unfortunately, the Chaosium book doesn't appear to include "Pidgeons from Hell." Stupid title, but a pretty good horror tale.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:55 pm
by Jesus Prime
Hahaha, brilliant. Narly as good as Frank Belknap Long's one about drowning "in a sea of cats".
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:35 pm
by Yog-Sothoth
A.T. Tsalazar's "The Things on the Chest"
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:45 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
Only the illustrated version is worth reading.