H.P. Lovecraft.

[Greyhawk]

Personally, I love all his work, but The King In Yellow has to be my favourite.

Actually, Robert W. Chambers wrote The King In Yellow collection. HPL read it and thought so much of it that he referenced it in several of his own stories.

Its that kind of sharing among authors that built the Cthulhu Mythos and seems to be sadly absent in the modern literary world.

 

[electric discordian]

Even the Barbarian in chief Robert E Howard wrote some cracking Mythos related stuff. Can I also bring attentio to WH Hodgeson my favorite Mythos style writer. He was totally different to Lovecraft as he was a total man of action, seafarer, warrior, martial artist and he was killed on active duty in the first world war! Check him out!

 

[MrGFunk]

I think this man is the greatest horror writer of our time,

How old are you..?

Probably best full stop.

I like the story of the glass labyrinth in the field. Brilliant. Any one know the name?

People should check out 'Mark Z. Danielwski - House of Leaves'. It has the same uncomfortable feeling, grab a dictionary though.

 

[dalek sec]

Love that man's work, scares the crap out of me everytime I read it. For any fans of the mytho's you might enjoy this album from a group I like.

http://www.noxarcana.com/necronomicon.html

 

[MattKirby]

I thought Dark Corners of the Earth was one of the best horror games of all time. It's truly scary. And I love Call of Cthulu.

 

[GothmogII]

Even the Barbarian in chief Robert E Howard wrote some cracking Mythos related stuff. Can I also bring attentio to WH Hodgeson my favorite Mythos style writer. He was totally different to Lovecraft as he was a total man of action, seafarer, warrior, martial artist and he was killed on active duty in the first world war! Check him out!

Speaking of Howard and Mythos elements, The Tower of the Elephant is a particularly good Conan story in that regard. Hmm, I even saw a copy of a leatherbound centennial edition of H.P. Lovecraft's stuff in a store, could be good, I've got the Conan centennial one, pretty awesome :3

 

[Arsen]

I thought Dark Corners of the Earth was one of the best horror games of all time. It's truly scary. And I love Call of Cthulu.

You know how there's always that "one puzzle" you can never figure out? It's right there at the beginning.

 

[DirkGently]

I think this man is the greatest horror writer of our time,

How old are you..?

Probably best full stop.

I like the story of the glass labyrinth in the field. Brilliant. Any one know the name?

People should check out 'Mark Z. Danielwski - House of Leaves'. It has the same uncomfortable feeling, grab a dictionary though.

And a month or two of your time.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

I like H.P. Lovecraft's ideas, really... they're beautiful, but I tried reading "The Mountains of Madness" and I really just couldn't get through it. He describes everything too much, like me. It was really hard just to get through the first 6 pages He's a bad writer, a great idealist, but a terrible writer.

 

[thiosk]

Hp lovecraft is good.
Not all movie adaptions of his stories are.

Evidence:

The Unnamable (1988)
a.k.a : H. P. Lovecraft's The Unnamable

Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. (End of the hp lovecraft part, 5 minutes) Go ahead to 1988, and some college students have heard the story about the unnamable and want to check out the vault...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096344/

Terrible movie. Terrible.

Good jugglies though.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Umm, on the racism front I really can't find it funny Arsen. "Herbert West: Reanimator" is a little bit sickening for that reason alone and I can't remember the title but there's one story of his where he goes on at some length about the evils of the "squat yellow race" of eskimos.

Difficult one. West was a sociopath anyway; like Doctor Frankenstein.

And the "Tcho Tcho" were not specifically eskimos. Given the horrors that existed in the Artic/Antarctic in his version of the world, I'd expect the Inuit's to be something less than human.

 

[Silvertongue]

His racism really doesn't bother me that much...I can read it with a clear conscience considering that it's just fiction, inspired by an extremely nutty life in which he felt caged in on all sides. I think he really wanted to believe that nothing on this "terraqueous globe" as he so eloquently put it, was of any consequence at all, and that the world he so disliked was going to go up in smoke.

 

[MattKirby]

I thought Dark Corners of the Earth was one of the best horror games of all time. It's truly scary. And I love Call of Cthulu.

You know how there's always that "one puzzle" you can never figure out? It's right there at the beginning.

I think I know the one you're talking about. But, I haven't played that in forever. Another good one is condemned. But we all know yahtzee agrees.

The thing is that I got stuck on the shaggoth. Or however, you spell it. I haven't played past that part because I'm 100% stuck. I've tried for like half an hour.

 

[Yegargeburble]

The Lurker on the Threshold, and hmmm, what was it called, the colour fallen from the sky?
The Fallen Color? Something like that, I don't remember.

Think it is "The Colour out of Space." Either way, Lovecraft's works are awesome. My favorite stories so far are:

The Call of Cthulhu
The Whisperer in Darkness
Pickman's Model

 

[Silvertongue]

Yeah, Yeg, those are all good ones. You know, they made a decent Night Gallery episode out of Pickman's Model. I watched it on YouTube.