Lovecraft - What should I read?

Mr_Grinch

I love me some horror, and I've heard plenty about Lovecraft but don't know where to start. I need some title suggestions, anyone?

UK links to CHEAP (I'm moving house soon and have no spare cash!) purchases welcome

Advent

http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=&author=Lovecraft&status=complete&action=Search

Free audio books of items in the public domain.

Mr_Grinch

Awesome, cheers.

Mai-Kero

I don't know about its pricing in the UK, but there's a nice cheap hardback that Borders US sells filled up with 800 pages of his stories in a small, small font. It's fantastic.

As far as individual stories go, check out:

At the Mountains of Madness, The Colour Out of Space, The Shadow over Innsmouth. All of them are so awesome.

Szechuanosaurus

There's a series of Omnibus compilations of Lovecraft stuff. At the Mountains of Madness is in the first one and it only costs a can of Irn-Bru shy of six quid.

If that's too expensive, I'll post you my copy. I never managed to read the damn thing anyway.

Just1life2live4

I think this was posted before but I got into the habit of reading at least part of a story every night before bed, some of them are just awesome.

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html

CptKemzik

The Shadow Out of Time was also an interesting read too as far as individual stories go.

Herr Caesar

You can also find all of his stuff (including his will of all things) on wikisource.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:H._P._Lovecraft

As for recommendations, The Call of Cthulhu really should be one of the first.

Ferrus

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

There's a series of Omnibus compilations of Lovecraft stuff. At the Mountains of Madness is in the first one and it only costs a can of Irn-Bru shy of six quid.

If that's too expensive, I'll post you my copy. I never managed to read the damn thing anyway.

I second Omnibus. There's one that has the whole "Dreamquest for unkown Kadath" series in it which is a pretty good "fantasy" story. Especially if you know a bit about how dreaming works.

Avoid Spikes

Get the Library of America compilation: "H.P. Lovecraft: Tales." It's got all the key stories, as picked by Peter Straub and scrubbed by noted Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi.

And because it doesn't have a monster on the front, it looks like legitimate literature, so you immediately win the argument if anyone dares to suggest the Eldritch Yankee Gentlemen was a hack (just before they're drawn screaming into the night sky by ... was that a tentacle?).

Mr_Grinch

Cheers folks! All useful links and information

And wikisource isn't banned at work, methinks I've found some lunchtime reading!