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anyone here read his books/stories?

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anyone here read his books/stories?

I finally got round to reading Call of Cthulhu, but I haven't read any of his other stuff.

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anyone here read his books/stories?

I finally got round to reading Call of Cthulhu, but I haven't read any of his other stuff.

good stuff, but not as good as the horror at the red hook, or herbert west-reanimator

Good reading - The Color Out of Space sticks with me the most.

Good reading - The Color Out of Space sticks with me the most. can you put up a synopsis?

Good reading - The Color Out of Space sticks with me the most. can you put up a synopsis?

Hmm, it's been a couple months...a guy heads out to a remote New England location to investigate a meteorite impact that occured decades prior. After finding out where from the suitably creepy locals, he finds an area around a farmstead where everything is completely dead and covered with a grey dust. Apparently, it wasn't always that way, but the area slowly transformed after the meteorite crashed near the farmstead, and strangest of all was the unknown color that everthing glowed at night. Then family members began to disappear or go insane...and he gets to pick up the pieces as to why.

I also recommend "The Thing on the Doorstep," but I could go on and on, since many of them have some pretty unique and creepy hooks at the end.

Good reading - The Color Out of Space sticks with me the most. can you put up a synopsis?

Hmm, it's been a couple months...a guy heads out to a remote New England location to investigate a meteorite impact that occured decades prior. After finding out where from the suitably creepy locals, he finds an area around a farmstead where everything is completely dead and covered with a grey dust. Apparently, it wasn't always that way, but the area slowly transformed after the meteorite crashed near the farmstead, and strangest of all was the unknown color that everthing glowed at night. Then family members began to disappear or go insane...and he gets to pick up the pieces as to why.

I also recommend "The Thing on the Doorstep," but I could go on and on, since many of them have some pretty unique and creepy hooks at the end.

read the shunned house?

Good reading - The Color Out of Space sticks with me the most. can you put up a synopsis?

Hmm, it's been a couple months...a guy heads out to a remote New England location to investigate a meteorite impact that occured decades prior. After finding out where from the suitably creepy locals, he finds an area around a farmstead where everything is completely dead and covered with a grey dust. Apparently, it wasn't always that way, but the area slowly transformed after the meteorite crashed near the farmstead, and strangest of all was the unknown color that everthing glowed at night. Then family members began to disappear or go insane...and he gets to pick up the pieces as to why.

I also recommend "The Thing on the Doorstep," but I could go on and on, since many of them have some pretty unique and creepy hooks at the end.

read the shunned house?

Nope, that could be in the book I left at home before finishing it. What's that one about?

I just remembered my favorite: The Picture in the Hall. It's a quick, wild ride with a sudden stop at the end. I can't summarize this one - it's just quickly and efficiently Lovecraft.

Good reading - The Color Out of Space sticks with me the most. can you put up a synopsis?

Hmm, it's been a couple months...a guy heads out to a remote New England location to investigate a meteorite impact that occured decades prior. After finding out where from the suitably creepy locals, he finds an area around a farmstead where everything is completely dead and covered with a grey dust. Apparently, it wasn't always that way, but the area slowly transformed after the meteorite crashed near the farmstead, and strangest of all was the unknown color that everthing glowed at night. Then family members began to disappear or go insane...and he gets to pick up the pieces as to why.

I also recommend "The Thing on the Doorstep," but I could go on and on, since many of them have some pretty unique and creepy hooks at the end.

read the shunned house?

Nope, that could be in the book I left at home before finishing it. What's that one about?

I just remembered my favorite: The Picture in the Hall. It's a quick, wild ride with a sudden stop at the end. I can't summarize this one - it's just quickly and efficiently Lovecraft.

its in a book called the road to madness (a compilation of his stories)

its about this house where lots of people keep dying, but not immediantly. anyways it turns out theres this vampire thing buried under the house, and the main character melts it with acid at the end of the story. really cool, really scary

its in a book called the road to madness (a compilation of his stories)

its about this house where lots of people keep dying, but not immediantly. anyways it turns out theres this vampire thing buried under the house, and the main character melts it with acid at the end of the story. really cool, really scary

Hmm, if there's one thing you can count on Lovecraft for, it's old houses and ancient vampiric evil...but he always manages to make it sound good and damn creepy. :D

I haven't come across The Road to Madness yet, I only have The Color Out of Space, The Lurking Fear, and one other one that I now seem to be missing...hmm...damn.

EDIT: Duh, it's the one I just took off the shelf - the Dunwich Horror. I also picked up "Strange Eons" by Robert Bloch, supposedly a Lovecraft contemporary. I haven't read it yet, though.

its in a book called the road to madness (a compilation of his stories)

its about this house where lots of people keep dying, but not immediantly. anyways it turns out theres this vampire thing buried under the house, and the main character melts it with acid at the end of the story. really cool, really scary

Hmm, if there's one thing you can count on Lovecraft for, it's old houses and ancient vampiric evil...but he always manages to make it sound good and damn creepy. :D

I haven't come across The Road to Madness yet, I only have The Color Out of Space, The Lurking Fear, and one other one that I now seem to be missing...hmm...damn.

i only have the road to madness. my local barnes and noble doesnt have many lovecraft books :cry:

its in a book called the road to madness (a compilation of his stories)

its about this house where lots of people keep dying, but not immediantly. anyways it turns out theres this vampire thing buried under the house, and the main character melts it with acid at the end of the story. really cool, really scary

Hmm, if there's one thing you can count on Lovecraft for, it's old houses and ancient vampiric evil...but he always manages to make it sound good and damn creepy. :D

I haven't come across The Road to Madness yet, I only have The Color Out of Space, The Lurking Fear, and one other one that I now seem to be missing...hmm...damn.

i only have the road to madness. my local barnes and noble doesnt have many lovecraft books :cry:

Ah, there's the beauty of it...one of mine was a Goodwill find (amazing what you can find there), the other 3 I bought at other second-hand stores. What are the stories in "The road to madness?"

I've yet to read his books but plan to I have alot of reading to do and gaming and.. :shock: but anyway I have seen some short films based on some of his short stories and I've read some of his short stories online as well. And I've seen movies based on his works. I shall read his works soon need to get around to buying them

He's really a great fantasy author, who found out that horror sells better.

Sort of like Clive Barker.

I like The Shuttered Room; The Dunwich Horror; and The Shadow over Ipswich

as well as Re-Animator. and Unknown Khadath.

Ia! Ia! Cthulu f'ptha'gen!

Hail the mighty Nyarlathotep

Lovecraft is great. My favourite stories so far are Herbert West: reanimator and Colour out of space. I've been trying to read his short novel The mountains of madness but it's pretty rough to read nothing good happens until you have read through a good portion of the story.

BTW have anyone seen the movie Dagon? Personally I think this movie is pretty good.

Lovecraft is great. My favourite stories so far are Herbert West: reanimator and Colour out of space. I've been trying to read his short novel The mountains of madness but it's pretty rough to read nothing good happens until you have read through a good portion of the story.

BTW have anyone seen the movie Dagon? Personally I think this movie is pretty good.

Yeah the Colour out of Space was his best IMHO.