[fungi from Yuggoth]

I've been none too keen on the various pastiches set in the Cthulhu mythos. Ironically, I've found the more accurate pastiches to reside in the spoof depratment, such as Pickman's Modem. There are also a number of authors not writing in the Mythos who have very accurately captured Lovecraft's style, Thomas Ligotti being one that springs to mind. Clark Ashton Smith wrote some excellent Lovecraftian fiction (at a time when that phrase wasn't even coined). Tales such as The Nameless Offspring and Return of the Sorceror could have been written by Lovecraft; indeed I would even go so far as to say that CAS was a major influence in honing HP's style.