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Hope you guys will check it out and let me know what you think. We're just trying to live up to the cover art.
I know a few people who would gladly nominate this text as an arcane text that only the most dedicated of sorcerers can understand......
This is your best bet. Barnes & Noble's H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction.
You might find this fun.
But don't be misled - Lovecraft had no consistent universe of characters and relationships. His "mythos" is a playful web of dark rumours and references to things unknown and unknowable. The idea of a pantheon is from Derleth and games, not Lovecraft.
Amazing amosphere but i would recommend playing it on PC if your machine can handle it. It looks even better on PC.
It is cheaper too.
http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/info?plain=vanishingofethancarter
What helped me was reading “The Book of Eibon” and looking up every word I didn’t understand. Once I got through with that Lovecraft was easy.
After that pick this up.
Probably not what you're looking for exactly, but The King in Yellow contains a few stories by Chambers. It's one of the biggest influences of Lovecraft and a really creepy read.
It's not film, but Donald Tyson's Necronomicon Series does just that. I've read the first couple and enjoyed them a lot more than I expected.
Thanks, I really love diving into these texts.
If you're shopping: I have a decent cheap reprint that I published through American Eldritch; it includes Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, and a new introduction, in addition to the novel. You can preview the text in Amazon if you click on the book cover.
If you're shopping but in no great hurry: I'm currently working on a slightly more robust version, with an illustrated bestiary (currently in roughs) & other index information for the Dream Quest (not super looking forward to compiling all the locations and place names, but I'm going to give it a shot). Probably going to release later this summer, it will also be pretty cheap.
It’s quite literally called “the Cthulhu wars” the United States battles against the mythos. It’s historical fact mixed in the mythos fiction. Here is an amazon link to the book as well.... https://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Wars-United-Battles-Against/dp/1472807871/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1521705985&sr=8-9&keywords=Cthulhu+wars
There was an excellent collection that Barnes and Noble published that was the first time I had seen EVERYTHING compiled and in order of publication. It also included some lesser known stories, but what I loved is that most other compilations pick and choose, where that was a massive volume that kept you from needing multiple volumes.
I believe this is the reprint of the volume I have.
As /u/Sequoiadendron points out, this is at the wrong end of the planet.
However, actual giant penguins, actually in Antarctica were discovered a couple of years back, as reported here.
I can recommend the "Necronomicon". It contains most of the popular stories and I feel it looks the best! There is also another book in the set called the "Eldritch Tales", which I can also recommend.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eldritch-Tales-Miscellany-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/0575099356
I actually wrote and illustrated a graphic novel! It’s under a pen name because I had a friend help with the writing.
It’s heavily influenced by Lovecraft, but includes time travel and Nazis too.
Not to be that guy, but I have a collection of short weird fiction/horror, The Stone Man and Other Weird Tales. It's up on Amazon for $1.99 right now, but if wait until tomorrow (the 23rd), you can pick it up for free.
But, if you want to read good work, check out William H. Hodgson, Robert E. Howard (although his weird fiction tends to blend quite a bit with fantasy), August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith.
Hey u/UnfathomableFishBeast,
First of all, I love that you love real books.
That particular leatherbound awesome book can be purchased from Barnes & Noble <strong>here</strong>, it's not a limited edition or a rare book.
Rather than ever download any H.P. Lovecraft, I absolutely encourage you to purchase that book or other real books of his in order to support the real books print publishing industry!
My essay:
> What I've found from book lovers is that they love to request books that they've read over and over so much they can quote passages from them. Many even mail me their own beloved editions to craft into treasure boxes, so they can have something meaningful to put their valuables inside of.
> One important thing about the fact that I purchase books to craft, both new and used is,--my purchase supports the publishing industry. In this digital age, we live in fear of the death of print. Indeed, I go to many used book sales where schools are donating books as they are switching to digital. Our bookstores are disappearing because people want ebooks now. My favorite bookstore when I lived in Chicago, Borders, went bankrupt.
> I get many books from library sales that are their overstock, even libraries are lending ebooks. By selling my Secret Safe Books to people who adore real books and want to keep them on bookshelves for the mere glance at a cover reminds them of the story they loved/of the time in their life they read it,--I'm in a sense advertising the beauty of the real paper and board physical book.
TL;DR:
We all must keep on buying real published physical books for any and all reasons in order to keep up demand for the printing of more books, thus keeping the print industry alive.
Now go forth and buy tons of real books!!!
If you aren't sure where to start or if you don't want to spend a lot up front, all of Lovecraft's works are in the public domain and freely available. Maybe try getting a taste of what looks interesting by checking out this website.
I personally started with some of his shorter titles until I got accustomed to his prose. I don't know I could have just started on At The Mountains of Madness, for example, and enjoyed it.
A few of my favorites that hooked me and are relatively short:
Dagon
The Rats In The Walls
The Terrible Old Man
None of these are part of the Cthulhu Mythos though.
If you just want to dig right in to the mythos then I'd say just start at The Call of Cthulhu.
If you find it difficult to read his archaic prose at first (like I did) but still really want to dig in, I can't recommend Libravox's free recordings enough. Listening to a few of those got me over the initial hump and now I really enjoy reading Lovecraft's fiction.
Edit: formatting
I, too, got it for Christmas! It's seriously a gorgeous book, even with the dust jacket removed. I feel like it's nice to look at (with the cover/illustrations), but I also have this book, which I feel is a better collection of his stories alone.
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers was written when Howard was 5
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm
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Aaaannnnd here's the link because that would be helpful:
The complete works of H P Lovecraft is available as one hardback book on Amazon with a nice sturdy case, thin bible-style pages and a page ribbon. It's a great buy.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015
This review speaks for itself:
"I originally read most of these stories a quarter of a century ago, but it was good to find them all in one volume. Let's face it, Lovecraft needs to be read from a heavy tome, preferably by guttering candlelight, as you strain to hear the strange slithering sound just outside your chamber door, and not on a tablet on the 8.52 to Nottingham. All the classic Lovecraft tales are here, and the book is beautifully bound and printed. The print is a good readable size, and each tale has a brief introduction detailing when it was written and any interesting references. You soon realise how hugely influential old H.P was, sci-fi, fantasy and horror have all learned from him, writers like Stephen King and James Herbert obviously so, but others too. Terry Pratchett referenced Lovecraft too. One slight word of caution, the racial language and descriptions in some of the stories are very much of their time. When I first read them years ago I didn't notice so much, but now, even though I'm not the most PC person in the world, some of the language is fairly shocking. If you've not read Lovecraft before be aware of it, but don't let it put you off. Overall a really nice edition."
This is my lucky day. I did a search and came up with the actual guidelines. I never would have thought that they were out there, simply because George distrusted the internet. He never accepted stories via email during his tenure and all rejections were written on a computer that was probably only a bit more modern than the Commodore 64/128 I used as a kid.
I'm really not underselling the guidelines as one of the most complete and sincerely helpful pieces written by an editor. George and his staff reworked these guidelines over the years until they were two pages that would have marveled Strunk and White. I notice that this has been slightly modified (addition of Stephen King's book "On Writing," for example.) Otherwise, this is the real deal.
The idea was always to help a writer improve, story after story, until one day we might get something publishable. It was like a writing workshop, but tuition was simply the price of postage.
I just finished the first trade Monstress Book: One. There's so much pain in this series, but it's offset by the beauty and evil joy in the art work. Can't wait for book two.
The problem is that in The Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft refers to a 751st page of a Necronomicon. Now, of course, we can imagine that much of the edition that Lovecraft referred to is made up of commentary by later authors, etc. — similarly to how, for example, The Art of War is short but there are many editions that include commentary by later authors which make the book much longer. However, I think that the actual work by Alhazred would still have to be at least several hundred pages long.
>Dark Corners of the Earth - crashing
Turn on Vsync under your graphics card control panel (either Nvidia or AMD). And as bonus - unofficial patch will solved all known bugs.
Here's the link to the B&N page. I found it in this thread, four pages into /r/lovecraft/top/.
ETA: Wow, reddit made an interesting thumbnail selection. Whatever.
You can throw an eye on the sidebar. There are listed some of the best considered short stories/novels of Lovecraft. All are freely available on the web. If you're looking for a book, there are a few that collect all of his work (which wasn't that much) - <em>"The Complete Fiction"</em> from Barnes and Noble is a good one, but it's more like a collectable edition - leather bound and so on. The stories there are chronologically listed and each one features a brief introduction by S.T. Joshi - the greatest Lovecraft scholar.
For a more affordable edition, you can look into the Penguin Modern Classics volumes - three books that combine all of his prose. They are "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories", "The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories" and "The Dreams in the Witch-House and Other Weird Stories". Look them up at your prefered store.
He only wrote short stories, and they are all in the public domain at this point.
The stories varying a lot, so pick what titles interest you and go with it. Either read them for free at the bottom of this page through several links, or you can buy a compilation at most large box, bookstores.
Exactly. Here is the Necronomicon I have on my bookshelf. It has absolutely nothing to do with Lovecraft.
Heya - I saw https://dreamscopeapp.com/ which is faster - takes about 30s from upload (my fave filter is the Self Transforming Machine Elves, but there are others). I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it all looked pretty Lovecraftian!
The MP3 is available on the composer's site (direct link to file).
There is an ebook edition of Discovering H. P. Lovecraft, which includes "A Literary Copernicus" by Fritz Leiber: https://smile.amazon.com/Discovering-H-P-Lovecraft-Robert-Price-ebook/dp/B007JNWCSO/
In Italy, Lovecraft's work captivated critics, curators, intellectuals and authors alike, mostly in the Seventies if I'm not mistaken. Some publishing companies like Fanucci, Newton Compton and others contributed to the author's recurring fame by printing and reprinting all his know works. I discovered Lovecraft in the Nineties thanks to a Newton Compton series called Fantastico Economico Classico (I read them all), and I consider him one of the main influences on my drive as a wanna-be writer myself.
Right now I'm reading the anthology of all Lovecraft's works called Tutti i Romanzi e i Racconti. Needless to say I'm enjoying every moment of it (reading The Shadow Out of Time rn).
took the words right out of my mouth. Also make the other symbols like the Diamond, Spade, Joker etc. Into something Eldritch or Lovecraftian based, like maybe the back of the cards can have the elder sign and so on. If their for personal use than that's cool but I'm afraid if your looking to make a profit out of it, a simple Google search will show on Amazon a number of sets already in production by different companies, lol there's even one who already used the idea of putting an elder sign symbol on the back of the cards ☹️ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083YZL4FP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_4Hs9Fb8YP0RRZ
so you'd better start working on some intrinsically unique stuff that would stand out if you want it to get the recognition it could have the potential to garnish.
I recently published a collection of stories. There may be a bit more Howard influence than Lovecraft, but they're still mightily creepy. You can read the first one here, and if you like, the rest of the collection is available on Amazon.
Yeah hes a great artist, I have his Call of Cthulhu version. He told me the English version of At The Mountains of Madness should be released this fall. Keep in mind its just part 1 of 2.
Having done audio book, several types of physical text, and ebook, I can absolutely say that a real book is best. Personally I really prefer a nice, big, necronomicon-feeling hard cover. As much as it may seem a joke, your reading environment can also be impactful. Windy nights, cold nights, low light, being alone. All of that helps and the feeling of reading a tome you know you'll have till it's aged with yellowed pages and tears of madness certainly is worthwhile. Not to mention, it's just a really good edition with all the stories.
The Complete Fiction is a reprint of Barnes and Noble's Leatherbound volume, minus the juvenilia (A few stories) and brief introductory notes for each story by S. T. Joshi, as well as a different intro.
The Barnes and Noble one is pretty sexy, while the Knickerbocker comes with a slipcase. You get a bit more material in the B&N one, but they're rather similar overall.
Read the whole thing. I have this leather-bound beauty on my bookshelf. $20 list price, I got it for $17.
Make sure it has silver edged pages with the purple bookmark ribbon.
Here is the Barnes and Noble ebay page for it.
I have a soft spot for Lovecraft's sketch, and Joe Broer's statue based on it
I ended up going with this one. It was more expensive and it doesn't include all the stories, but it seems to have a lot of cool other content.
I am but a simple graduate candidate who spends his free time comparing immune reactions to seemingly diverse virus species, such as those of Zika and Dengue. I think they provide a good metaphor in two ways; the more divergent a virus from those to which we are immune, the less potent the immune response will be. With the greater repertoire of antibodies, the greater chance of cross-neutralization; but as with an Eldritch abomination, all preconceived notions of immune neutralization, or biological characterization, are null when faced with a completely unique entity.
In addition, while structural similarities are abundant, the entirety of the chemical composition of a viral capsid is dependent on the environment in which it resides and in which cell types it is most apt to reproduce. Thus, in accordance with the previous hypothesis, we are unable to fathom a Great One because we have are yet to transverse the depths of R'lyeh.
One of my favorite Infocom text adventure games was The Lurking Horror. Its not really based on this story, it was more like a collection of a few mythos scenarios with small puzzles and tasks. It had good atmosphere plus it takes place in a totally Miskatonic-y school where you are snowed in with the roads closed...great stuff. I had just gotten into HPL a few years before when I got AD&Ds Deities and Demigods and was curious about all that wild stuff I saw in there.
http://www.abandonia.com/games/434/download/LurkingHorror.htm
- A person who is from an earlier time and has originated or contributed to a common tradition shared by a particular group.
The Call of Cthulu is, of course, an absolute staple. That being said, the very first story by Lovecraft that I ever read was Dagon. I read the entire story (it being the first in the book that I happened upon) standing in front of the "L" section in the Literature section, and immediately bought the book without a second thought.
However, my personal, bar none, favorite is "The Picture in the House", though it has little to do with the actual Lovecraftian mythos. My personal favorite that does pertain to the mythos, is Nyarlathotep, though I urge you to read it early and knowing as little of the mythos as possible.
Outside of that, I recently picked up and recommend The Complete Works (though purists will tell you it is lacking significant amounts of his works, such as those published under a pseudonym). It is organized chronologically, though I don't hold to their order, and peruse it at random, which I'm enjoying.
There's been several versions published over the years. The unabridged version was published as The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft by Necronomicon Press, and the cheapest you can find that is about US$75.00 + shipping. However, the most popular version (edited by August Derleth, and which first appeared in Something About Cats) is included in Lovecraft Remembered, which starts out at about US$30.00.
Try this site, they have just about everything, and at decent prices too. http://www.abebooks.com/ If not that, then try Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or Ebay. Also, if you like Lovecraft books, try looking up the series of books that was published by Chaosium years ago. They are out of print now, but I have seen them around.
I recently listened to "Necronomicon" and "Dreams of Terror and Death" on Audible. Both were fantastic.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Necronomicon-Audiobook/B00MNQKYNC
Both are collections and are over 20 hours long, so great value.
You might want to try volunteering your services for the Librivox project. I'm sure they'd appreciate it. I've had several of my own students produce some audiobook chapters for them.
The starting point is Chambers' The King in Yellow, which is out of copyright and available on Gutenberg. For the Yellow Mythos in particular, I'd recommend you start with The Hastur Cycle from Chaosium and Rehearsals for Oblivion Act 1, in that order.
Hey man, this site has Reanimator (read by Combs), along with alot of other audiobooks free for the taking
https://archive.org/details/NearlyCompleteHPLovecraftCollection
The only qualm I have with it is that everything is unorganized, so you will need to sift though to find the parts you desire.
well, honestly, it doesn't really matter that much...
We'll all be stricken with insanity and eaten as a light snack by the old ones, blasphemers and believers alike.
As a believer, I just hope to be eaten first.
Get a book containing all his stories. I recommend this one, its pretty inexpensive and look fantastic, comes with a case and bookmarker. Then if you wanna read everything, or look online for suggestions, you will have all of them at hand!
Here's one for $15. I own this edition. It doesn't have his revisions, but it does contain his primary works. The cover isn't anything special, but at least it's hardback.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785834206/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Yeah, it's made for that appearance. There's two versions, apparently.
https://smile.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Spellbook-Simon/dp/0380731126
Not exactly mythos related, but if you want ‘multiple weird fiction writers’ and want to avoid the ‘never mind the quality feel the width’ aspect to the ubiquitous Amazon ‘megapacks’ I can strongly recommend Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird anthology. The quality of authors is incredible and includes a lot of Lovecraft-adjacent and Lovecraft-inspired writers (Lord Dunsany, Laird Barron, Robert Bloch, Fritz Lieberman, Ligotti etc etc etc). It should keep you busy…
Not exclusively Lovecraft, but it is exclusively mythos. The Encyclopedia Cthulhuana. Not only does it list every character, creature and location, it cites the work they are from and contains a nearly complete bibliography in the back appendix.
Well, damn, what a coincidence this is...
Actually, I'm reading The Shadow Out of Time right NOW (in this Lovecraft's work hardcover anthology). It's one of my preferred Lovecraft's stories ever, a masterful tale of a true cosmic horror capable of infringing all the laws of space and time.
As I see it, The Shadow Out of Time is a great sci-fi story as well, with a very modern vibe. It's a bit like when I re-watch some old episode of Star Trek TOS, and I feel that the story stands up the test of time despite all the naiveties of the series.
There is a book called Conans Brethren, and it seems to be from the same "series" as the Necronomicon, Eldritch Tales, and the Complete Chronicles of Conan.
Avon Books. This is the Amazon page. The Necronomicon https://www.amazon.com/dp/0380751925/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_HTaaGbBWTQ5GN
I actually secretly bought mine when I was a teen (so help me if my mother saw it xD) from the book store Borders back when it was still open
I can't attest to the quality because I haven't read it in a long time but it was put out by chaosium and it was called Cthulhu's Heirs. Here's a link to it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cthulhus-Heirs-Cthulhu-Mythos-Fiction/dp/1568820135
I love that the longer you look at this, the more you can see. There's Hastur, Ithaqua, Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, and Cthulhu.
The artist that made this, Richard Luong, also did the artwork for a huge board game, Cthulhu Wars. I'm big into board games, and it's one of my favorites from among about 130 that I own. It's pricey, but is a fantastic game with great strategy and amazing miniatures. I happily paid the price and have zero regrets. It's great.
I got mine from Amazon Germany.
Link.
Are these manga? I’ve never seen these specific ones in store before.
I have some other lovercraft manga by Gou Tanabe (this is the Amazon page). There’s six books (I think) and they recently got translated!
> I don't get why people insist on calling Lovecraft a misogynist of all things. Are they basing his opinions of women solely off reading The Thing on the Doorstep as his bitter divorce rant, and armchair psychologist opinions of his relationship with his mother?
I discuss this in my book, it seems to be an idea driven by the lack of women in his work, and crops up like a bad penny in some criticism. In his younger days (c. 1923) he did make a couple chauvinistic statements in his leters (not sure how seriously), but he didn't evince such views later in life.
Really kinda shocked at how little it cost; to put it in perspective I read Faulkner's As I Lay Dying a month ago and that cost $15 for a 250ish page trade paperback. They can't be making too much money off this one, lol
Its also nice to see this has some of his lesser known stories as well. Pretty much complete near as I can tell for his standard adult fiction stories. Link for anyone interested: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fiction-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/0785834206
You can get The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft on Amazon for about $12, which is kind of hard to beat price-wise, but might be kind of intimidating. "The Call of Cthulhu" is probably his most well known story. "At The Mountains of Madness" gets a little more into the cosmic horror, and is my personal favorite.
Rudimentary Peni is more punk, H. P. Lovecraft (band) is psychedelic...if you're interested in the variety of music inspired by Lovecraft, I'd strongly recommend Gary Hill's The Strange Sound of Cthulhu.
I'm sorry you're getting so many downvotes. I like the scenario you are describing and it makes me wonder what will happen next. I appreciate that the story wasn't too long and could be read quickly. Keep writing, and keep reading other writers' work.
If you've never read Stephen King's book On Writing you might enjoy it. It's an interesting read even for people who don't write horror stories or weird fiction. You can probably find it at the local school or public library. I'm pretty sure that it's even available as an audio book.
Good luck!
I think that "The Writer's Journey" was one of the books that I read through a few years ago when I was trying to better understand how writers put together stories.
I agree that it would be tough to fit most Lovecraft stories into the Hollywood blockbuster format, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The horror genre is already an outsider in Hollywood, and doesn't always conform to feel-good formulas.
I actually think that the fatalism of film noir is a really good match with Lovecraft. People go mad and heroes end up losing the girl or even their lives in film noir all of the time. That's almost as bad as getting eaten by Cthulhu. :D
There is an unofficial patch: fix most - if not, all bugs in the game.
Your review, remind me when I first played DCotC on the xbox going back decade ago... my beginnings of birth as a Lovecraft fan.
The reviews are likely not fake as it is a paid game that isn't very cheap, just different strokes for different folks.
I have been meaning to try this one out for a while. Its a FMV game called The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker that looks pretty decent and has a lovecraft theme going
This is the best Lovecraft collection IMO and it's dirt cheap. There's only one story about pharaohs (I forgot the title) that's not included but it's worth every penny.
Board game. There’s a series of them but Arkham is the first one
David Hambling has a story called The Monsters in the Park that features a Yithian who accidentally ended up in the body of a young boy.
Check out Jeffrey Thomas. He has a setting called Punktown, which is set on another planet in the far future. Lots of alien races and humanity live in the city, and the Mythos is out there. He's written a few novels, but also has a series of chapbooks on kindle, each containing 3 stories. Not all are directly Mythos related, but it creeps into a lot of his work.
Another one is William Meikle. He has stories all over the place, but some of his chapbooks are specifically Mythos stories. He's also written new fiction featuring Carnacki, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger, and a few of them have involved the Mythos as well. If you want to sample his work, his short story When the Stars Are Right is free on kindle.
Laird Barron is really good too. Check out any of his story collections.
Check out ISFDB.org for editions the story is featured in, and then you can check Bookfinder.com to price-compare those editions. For a new paperback, your best bet is the recent reprint of The Inhabitant of the Lake & Other Unwholesome Tenants:
https://amazon.com/Inhabitant-Other-Unwelcome-Tenants-Paperback/dp/1786363224/
Tim White was the artist, unfortunately now deceased (April 1952 - April 2020).
These covers were commissioned specifically for LC titles. I had a book of the artist’s work - full of amazing imagery from beautiful thru to the horrifically grotesque
https://www.amazon.com/Chiaroscuro-Paper-Tiger-Tim-White/dp/185028072X
Artist profile feature link below
There are more than 1 but I was talking about this one.
The Art of Horror isn’t specifically Lovecraft, but it does have a good Lovecraft chapter. H. R. Giger’s Necronomicon I and II are also not coffee table books, but they’re weird. Not cheap, tho.
I'll bring the Necronomnomnom. We might need snacks.
So I just found a collection called Cthulhu has all the Best Tunes and other Stories, which has a story involving music. It's a cheap buy on kindle where I am, so I will likely pick it up down the road.
One way I've heard it described (that particularly stuck with me), was imagine if you took an Ant, which only knows what most ants know, like their colony and anthill and stuff. Now somehow show them our point of reality and the scale of the universe and our planet, and they wouldn't be able to comprehend it and could no longer function in normal ant society. This lack of settling our minds and of breaking away from society both mentally and physically is where I assume madness starts, and once you actually realize this (if you even do) I would imagine it compounds into a worse mental state, once you realize that things will never be the same.
I'm currently reading a series of books called The Other.
It kind of touches on this but in an interesting way, once you make contact with these otherworldly events and entities, you must constantly chase this knowledge like some sort of high, constantly encountering them, and if left to your own devices you eventually succumb to the thoughts and are rendered catatonic. This drive alone some might also consider to be "madness".
His collaborations / revisions / ghostwriting isn't included in almost any of the books that are labeled as "Complete Fiction". The cheapest option for them is this book:
Start playing Arkham Horror the Card Game. I'm only half joking.
I would actually recommend picking up one of the many best of Lovecraft collections. I would recommend this one. It's pretty easy to find cheap in used book stores, covers off 450 pages of his best most iconic stuff, and if you like it, theres a few more in the series by the same publisher to round out the mythos: https://www.amazon.com/Best-H-P-Lovecraft-Bloodcurdling/dp/0345350804/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2I0ZMP5EQ9TTG&keywords=best+of+lovecraft+macabre&qid=1663311357&sprefix=best+of+lovecraft+mqcabre%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1
> Despite all the recent attention, few critics have examined the homoerotic presence that pervades many of Lovecraft’s stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Museum-Collected-Stories-Supernatural-ebook/dp/B00H3EXHME
This is where I read the story and has all his cowritten and ghostwritten stories so I would recommend this one too.
I'd try and pick up this collection: https://www.amazon.com/Best-H-P-Lovecraft-Bloodcurdling-Macabre/dp/0345294688.
Aside from Mountains of Madness, it has all the hits. My only complaint is for some reason the editor decided to organize the stories in order of how long they are. So all the under 20 pagers are at the front and all the longer meatier stories are at the back.
You can try with an annotated version, I personally like this one very much
I'd suggest just getting something like Necronomicon to start with.
smile.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Best-Weird-Tales-Lovecraft/dp/0575081562
I found a book edited by Mnemos in 2012 and 2016 (french shop cultura) (amazon fr)