H.P. Lovecraft!

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Damn, you have some stories not in the book I have. but man, I love you the guy builds tension using not necessarily adequate description in places but LANGUAGE to build dread, even among the most mundane of things... and he just keeps building and building that dread till he does something that REALLY disturbs you. having learn about the continent of Mu and few other bits of information and concepts combined from other stories her wrote, I worried that her was being driven by a metaphysical muse, like in Call of Cthulhu and Music of Eric Zann, and that maybe these horrifying things could ACTUALLY have been real, but thankfully I noticed a linguistic mistake in At the Mountains of Madness, it was a 'tourist's' mistake, so I knew he wasn't being possessed, he was just a REALLY damn good writer.

Dunwich horror was good.YOG-SOTHOTH

I've read his Nyarlathotep and Call of Cthulhu stories, but am not ready to call myself a fan yet. I gravitate more towards his buddy Robert E. Howard, though there is some overlap in their stories' subject matter (at least certain characters in Howard's work have stereotypically Lovecraft-sounding names). I do like Lovecraft's central concept of malevolent aliens coming to earth and becoming gods, but his writing style can be a little dense from what I've seen.

I am an unabashed Robert E. Howard fan. I especially like his more obscure, Non-Conan stories, such as the Bran Mak Morn tale, Worms Of The Earth, which is more than just sword and sorcery, but qualifies as genuine horror. And while I am a big Lovecraft fan, I do agree, his style of writing isn't for everyone.

Another down.Shadow over innsmouth.