The best of HP. Lovecraft

   Lovecraft is and has been one of my favorite authors for a very long time.  It is no suprise to me that he made the reading list because his stories have quite a reputation. Stories like "The call of Cthulu" and "The Dunwich Horror " have inspired movie makers two or three times over to attempt to capture the magnitude of supernatural horror and fantasy that is Lovecraft. If you have ever read any of his books then you know that in the world he creates for us that gigantic elder gods from space once controlled the earth and seek to take it back, consume it and enslave anything on it. Here was a man that was sitting in Victorian America writing about the horrors that can be found in outer space which is pretty amazing because no-one at that point had ever been there, and no-one was writing about monster gods from space and no-one did again until Dianetics. His writing was said to be inspired by his nightmares which he feverishly wrote down constantly, as well getting inspiration from he writings and illustrations by Lord Dunsany. His books consistently go into archaic histories of cultists, scientists and conjurers and almost never have happy endings leaving the reader to assume that all is still not right with the world even after  the tale has been told. I have to say  that I recommend these stories to anyone looking for cult classic horror that captures both the fantastic and the horrible all in one package.