Oh, the Horror! (Lovecraftian)

[Chased]

I've been getting into Lovecraft recently and I've always been a fan of horror combined with fantasy elements such as created by Mike Mignola Hellboy, BPRD) or some of Guilmero del Toro's work. Anyway else a fan of weird fiction or horror in general and have some personal recommendations?

 

[Doclector]

It's pretty hard to find, probably because it's pretty hard to do. I've found it popping up in part in some unexpected places. Tell me the daemons from the warhammer 40k universe aren't at least a little lovecraftian in nature. The flood from halo? The reapers from mass effect? It seems to have influences in an awful lot of things that at first glance, seem improbable to have a link to lovecraft.

Guillermo lended his style to vampires in books "the strain" and "the fall", and the strain is brilliant, but I haven't read the fall yet.

If you have a gamecube, "eternal darkness: sanity's requiem" is a pretty good lovecraftian game. Very hard to find though.

Aside from that, I'm having trouble trying to recommend things that aren't...well...lovecraft books. Like i said, I think it's hard to find, because it's hard to do.

 

[SoranMBane]

Marc Laidlaw, the lead writer for the Half-Life games, actually has a number of Lovecraft-inspired novels and short stories out there. The only of his novels I've read so far The 37th Mandala, but it and all the short stories I've managed to find were actually fairly awesome reads, so I imagine the others are too. The novels are mostly out of print, though, so you'll have to search the internet for used copies if you want to check them out.

 

[fletch_talon]

I read a collection of Lovecraft's work for the first time a couple of months ago.
I enjoyed all the stories, and they were all slightly unnerving, but only one really had me scared, well and truly scared.

So if you havn't read it yet, read "The Rats in the Walls" (I think that's the name).

 

[the rye]

I love the works of Lovecraft, his brand of horror manifests a truly disturbing mythos in the readers imagination. He deserves more recognition, a lot of people are only familiar with a pop culture understanding of the cthulh mythos but do not fully know it's macabre or weird nature.

"you fool, Warren is dead"

 

[Thaluikhain]

Hmmm...there are lots of people that try for Lovecraftian horror, usually sticking words like "non-Euclidean" and "cyclopean" into their works almost at random.

Some of the original Conan stories were very Lovecraftian, as the author and him were friends by correspondence.

Also, the House on the Borderlands was similar, and seems to have inspired him.

But, really, as a rule, only Lovecraft does Lovecraft well.

 

[Tycho Shiel]

I've read some Edgar Allan Poe stories that sound awfully Lovecraft-esque, but not as much so as others already mentioned.

On a personal note, the Lovecraft story that got me the most was "The Hound", one of his earlier works.