Want to read some Lovecraft, where should I start?

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by UnderTheOath

Opinions on 'The Curse of Yig'?

I personally loved it. But he co-wrote it, correct?

Ummm, not really:

By the way -- if you want to see a new story which is practically mine, read The Curse of Yig in the new Weird Tales, next your [Clark Ashton Smith's] verses. The "authoress", Mrs. Reed is a client for whom [Frank Belknap] Long & I have done lots of work, & this specimen is well-nigh a piece of original composition on my part, since all I had to go by was a synopsis of notes describing a pioneer couple, the attack on the husband by snakes, the bursting of his corpse in the dark, & the subsequent madness of the wife. All the plot & motivation in the present tale are my own -- I invented the snake-god, the curse, the prologue & epilogue, the point about the identity of the corpse, & the monstrously suggestive aftermath. To all intents & purposes it's my story -- though not my latest, for I wrote The Dunwich Horror afterward.

-- Selected Letters II, pp. 29-30

While it has some flaws, and occasional laxness in prose (something one finds now and again in his revision work, as opposed to his own original tales), it's a very fine tale of grisly horror, all right, and I find it retains a good deal of its power upon repeated readings....

[Lobolover]

Hmm.Anywhere would be good,I supose,though if youre a beginer,his lighter tales like "Celephais","The cats of Ulthar" or "The beast in the cave" or "The Alchemist",and if you wanna get the feel,then "Dagon" ,because if youve just started you have to get used to the mood beore digesting "Dexter Ward,The Mountains of Madness or Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
(hardest to read or me,for I always strive till a certain point(chapter end) and there are no chapters here!)