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Posted 2007-09-12, 06:45 PM
in reply to Raziel's post "H.P. Lovecraft"
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Raziel said:
So for about the last two years, I've been reading just about everything of his I can get my hands on. I've finished probably about two-dozen of his stories, including some of the larger ones like "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath".
I've read a bunch of his Cthulhu stories, in addition to a dozen or so of his "Dream Cycle" material. I can definitely say, I don't share Lovecraft's infatuation with dreams and whatnot (good stories they may be), but his Cthulhu works are some of the best fiction I've ever read. He's quickly become my absolute favorite author.
Has anybody else read any of his works at length?
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I just picked up a collection at Borders before work yesterday, and just started reading it, the title being The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. They're pretty good so far, though I've only read a few short stories so far. He seems to have an infatuation with the idea of insanity, which I gather came from the fact that his father had gone insane.
I do like how he doesn't really describe the horrors witnessed by characters, leaving them mostly to the readers' imagination.
I'm enjoying myself so far, can't wait until I can hit some of the famous Cthulhu stories. 
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