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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Cosmic Horror and Weird Tales
 
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Karl Rove
Feb 26, 2006

Oh man, the Elders are really lovely guys. Their astral projection seminars are literally off the fucking planet, and highly recommended.

MockingQuantum posted:

It's not bad, since once you pass a certain point you start getting a lot of his good stuff with fair frequency (starting around 1925 with The Horror at Red Hook) but it can be ponderous with the early, dream-cycle stuff.
Again, you're reading him in chronological order, which will certainly start you off with his earlier, much more ponderous works. His later and more developed works (The Call of Cthulhu, The Color Out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, etc) are much, much more readable. I actually enjoy his esoteric Dream Cycle works, though that is after having read everything else.

That being said, The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers is excellent, at the very least for the first four stories (mostly The Repairer of Reputations).

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