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I really felt compelled to post in this thread, there are two modern books that namedrop lovecraft a lot: Cyclonopedia, and The End of Mr. Y. I haven't read the latter, but Cyclonopedia is really weird. I wouldn't say that it was good, there were a few interesting ideas obscured with really bad writing. It's a made up of some phony manuscript written about occultist archeology, but it degenerates into chatlogs of internet people talking about horror movies, so... I've found that there's a lot of really good pre-modern fiction that Lovecraft took his ideas from. Fantasy, horror, detective fiction were all genres created primarily by German authors around the turn of the 19th century. But they don't have much of a presence in discussion. Of the top of my head, here are some books that may interest Lovecraft fans in one way or another. Frederich Schiller - The Apparitionist, The Criminal of Lost Honor: A True Story ETA Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir, The Sandman Heinrich von Kleist - The Marquise of O Novalis - Heinrich von Ofterdingen William Beckford - Vathek Charles Brockden Brown - Wieland James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan Algernon Blackwood - The Willows George Macdonald - Lilith
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