[Randolph]

I just picked up Tales From the Cthulhu Mythos which collects 2 HPL stories and about 20 othert ones by authors ranging from August Derleth to Stephen King. This is my first experience with mythos stories not written by Lovecraft and - so far - I've been pleasantly surprised.

"Jerusalem's Lot" by Stephen King was well written and genuinely creepy at times, though it seemed like a more of a tribute to Lovecraft than pastiche.
It's about a cursed house called Chapelwaite and the even more cursed family that built it. Oh, and the super-duper cursed ghosttown, Jerusalem's Lot.

The only way I can describe Frank Belknap Long's "The Space Eaters" is that it was a lot of "in joke" fun. I had known about Long from Lovecraft's correspondence, but this was the first story I'd read by him, and I would definitely be interested in reading more.

The best so far, though, was Clark Ashton Smith's "Return of the Sorceror" Smith was such an excellent (and versatile) writer, and this story proved to me that he could write traditional horror as well as he wrote dark fantasies (Or whatever you'd call them). I don't want to give anything away, but I highly reccommend this tale.

I haven't finished the book yet, but if I find any more gems, I'll post them.