So what've you read from it?  What do you like?  What don't you like?  Which ones do you own?

I've got 3 book of Lovecraft's works now.  Waking up Screaming (ToC), At the Mountains of Madness (ToC) and The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath (ToC).  I haven't finished the last two yet.  Just got them last weekend, actually.  Yay for the L-space bookstore in Salem.

I've read other bits from The Mythos as well.  I found Call of Cthulhu as well as Whisperer in the Woods and Rats in the Walls from a Lovecraft website that's since gone down.  I found a new one here though.

I really liked the Reanimator story (the movies were entertaining too, though they didn't stick to the story very well).  Shadow over Innsmouth was good too (we've got the DVD for Dagon here now to watch at some point).  I just really like how Lovecraft paints these vivid pictures of things too large and potentially horrible for the human mind to comprehend... and how people react when they run into stuff like that.

I'd love to hear what others think and get their suggestions.

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is by far one of my favorites by Lovecraft. 

Similarly, I have loved some of the continuations of the Dreamlands by other authors, predominantly Brian Lumley.  Hero of Dreams is quite a good rendition of the Dreamlands, imho.

If I go into how much Lovecraft I read on a regular basis, it'll just have you guys calling the loony bin on me. What's also fun to read, though, is "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" which is a collection put out by Del Rey of other authors' tales within Lovecraft's mythos, including his friend, Robert Bloch.

I bought the "Call of Cthulhu" game like a crack addict. It's...good. Getting through the Innsmouth level ALONE made me break three xbox controllers in frustration, though. As long as you don't mind being shot, stabbed, and punched without ANY way to fight back, you're good to go. It's really story-driven, which is cool. With a lot of...I guess they would be "inside jokes" for Lovecraft fans (which I would assume is who'd play the game).

H. P. Lovecraft owed it all to Arthur P. Wilmsley, author of the definitive Dictionary of Eye-Watering Adjectives.

I always thought the ideas were great: I love the mythos and the monsters and the general sense of inexplicable cosmic horror. But the actual writing, from what I've read, is... well, not great. If the world had contained alt.fan.poe back in the 1920s, Lovecraft would have been posting fanfics on it.

I read "At The Mountains of Madness and other stories", which has Mountains, obviously, The Shunned House, The Dreams in the Witch-House, and The Statement of Randolph Carter.

I just got "Tales of H.P. Lovecraft" as a belated birthday present, and it has The Outsider, The Music of Erich Zann, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, Mountains (again), The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow out of Time.

I'm on Call RIGHT NOW, and it's so good. My favorite so far is definitely The Dreams in the Witch-House. HIGHLY recommended.

I'm getting pretty damn annoyed with whoever is doing the publishing though, because I don't understand why it's seemingly impossible to find a complete collection, or a series of tomes that don't contain repetition. Because every book I've seen other than the two I own have at least 50% stories I've already read, and I'm not about to spend $20-30 on a book I already own half of. It may be making them more money or something, but it's goddamn annoying. What else is annoying  is how hard you have to look to realize that a book that says H.P. Lovecraft on the cover only contains 1 story by Lovecraft, and 15 by People I Don't Care About. I've honestly almost bought these things 3 or 4 times. I'm not saying no one could/should be interested in these books, but their marketing/cover strike me as more than a little deceptive.

Personally, I really like Lovecraft's style, and think he was an exceptionally talented writer. The only place where his writing sagged a little for me, was at about the middle of Mountains, because it started to feel like he was taking too long to set things up. But only about 10 pages after I had cause to complain, we got to the horrible beasties and all was well again. By well, I mean, "cataclysmically apocalyptically mad"..

Oh, I own Dagon. Love it.

I have read them all. *nods*

As for the CoC game, I'm assuming you're referring to Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, for PC right?

I played it. It's pretty darn good for the first bit, although after you get your hands on firepower, it kinda descends into your average FPS. Still pretty neat though.


Edit: I also must confess, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is perhaps my favourite. *nods*