It’s Lovecraft’s most famous creation: Cthulhu, the high priest of the Great Old Ones, waiting and dreaming under the ocean. Lovecraft books, you might as well get to this one sooner rather than later. If you’re just dipping your toes into H.P. Lovecraft’s xenophobia and obsession with race is very clearly on display. The second half is an amazing pay off with the creaky town’s haunting atmosphere. I’d start with this because you really get a feel for Lovecraft’s best, and worst, habits in one well-written story. The first half is a LONG info dump to muscle through. This story has one of my favorite lines, ‘blasphemous fish-frogs.’ A young man goes on a little trip to the isolated town of Innsmouth, where the people have strange faces and…gills?
If you have your own suggestions, please feel free to share in the comments! 1. Lovecraft books and mythos that’s worked out for me. So to help out newbies sample his work, here’s a suggested reading order to get your feet wet in the best H.P. But it’s also worthwhile and rewarding to read some of his stories so A) you can be in on what the fuss about Cthulhu is, and B) more importantly, you can see how he formed the source code for modern day horror. Lovecraft books can sometimes be off-putting. He was an imaginative, iconic, and influential writer whose legacy is complicated by his clear affinity for white supremacy, channeling his fear of non-Anglo-Saxons into stories of human monsters, alien invaders, and the fear of the unknown. Lovecraft was racist, xenophobic, and classist. And let’s not play coy about the eldritch elephant in the room: there’s no two ways about it, H.At his worst, his dialogue can be clunky, and he dumps exposition like he stole it and needs to stash it in your garage. At his best, he’s dynamite at building atmosphere. His writing style has some good points, and some…weak points.But there’s a few big hurdles to getting started with the best H.P. Lovecraft, the father of cosmic horror, and see what the hubbub is all about? After all, he created the iconic Cthulhu and inspired a generation of creators like Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro.
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