Reddit reviews Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Stories

First, I don't really recommend mass market paperbacks, get a trade if you can, they're much more comfortable to read. The collections published by Del Rey are really good, and you can know you have some continuity (and aren't buying the same stories) because all the covers are works of either HR Geiger or the Polish (or Hungarian?) surrealist whose name escapes me. I can't remember if these are only HP Lovecraft or if they also include Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and his other contemporaries. Purists detest Derleth because he took the Mythos in his own direction, but his stories are still very good, very different from Lovecraft (which is refreshing when it comes to his proteges and colleagues), and without his work none of Lovecraft's stories would've survived into today--he founded Arkham House dedicated to publishing all Cthulhu Mythos stories.

The Penguin Classics collections are really nice as well.

An individual book that I cannot recommend more is this one. It is a Barnes & Noble collection of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories, they are much longer (novella-length), very involved, and have a whole mythology unto their own. The scenery and Lovecraft's descriptions of the dreamlands and Antarctic wastes are so engrossing, haunting, and yet beautiful, it is difficult to put down. I have read very few stories with such intensely vivid imagery, and his dream cycle stories do not disappoint.

As a fellow Lovecraft fanboy, welcome to a literary world that will consume you. If you are interested, one of my firsts forays into Lovecraftian literature was The Colour Out of Space, which somehow made me physically ill while I read it one morning as a young kid (I was probably 14 at the time, spending a summer with my dad and I was regularly up till 4 or 5 am reading Lovecraft's stories and playing the wonderful MUD over telnet).

Here is a link to an online collection of Lovecraft's work. I, too, prefer books to reading online, so I completely understand.

Sounds like you're thinking of "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, May 1951). A very creepy and atmospheric story, it helped to popularize the modern Shub-Niggurath, especially since Chaosium cribbed from it to create their "dark young" CoC creatures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notebook_Found_in_a_Deserted_House



I first read "Notebook" in the Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos collection from Del Rey, available here:
www.amazon.com/Tales-Cthulhu-Mythos-H-Lovecraft/dp/034542204X/

Haven't checked in here in a while! Got back from Europe with the fiance a month ago, Ireland and Stockholm were amazing. Totally fell in love with both of them. Currently looking for a new job, have an interview with a company in the Sears Tower this coming Monday. Today, I'm hanging at the hospital working remotely with my dad while my mom has a double heart valve transplant.

Other than that, been reading a lot of Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos story compilation books. Currently reading this one and loving it, also have a copy of 'New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird' to read featuring the story 'A Colder War.' Can anyone recommend more books like those?

Hope you all are well! Other than that, my band Plague of Carcosa is opening for Feral Light in January in Chicago. Anyone planning on being there?

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos was pretty good, it has a few Lovecraft stories interlaced with other mythos stories from people in the circle. I especially enjoyed Robert Bloch's stories, "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" being one of the few pieces of weird fiction that genuinely scared me. Lovecraft "Haunter of the Dark" and Bloch's "Shadow from the Steeple" actually directly reference each other.

If you're up for an anthology of shorts, I just finished Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Here it is on Amazon

You could get a hold of it and see which of the authors you like and then go from there. Pretty good selection.

Try this:
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Cthulhu-Mythos-H-Lovecraft/dp/034542204X

This one for mythos stories not by Lovecraft: http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Cthulhu-Mythos-H-Lovecraft/dp/034542204X/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=07402S2M9VWP3J7ZKT1H

This one for mythos stories by Lovecraft: http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-H-Lovecraft-Bloodcurdling/dp/0345350804/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1397149990&sr=8-13&keywords=lovecraft

I've loaned these two volumes to start any friend who wanted to get into cosmic horror. Enjoy.

I remember liking Lurker at The Threshold by August Derleth when I read it as a teen.

I haven't read this http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/034542204X but it looks right up your alley.

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos was (I think) the first anthology dedicated to the Mythos, edited by Derleth. It's got Lovecraft and others, with both classic stories and some more recent ones (the version I linked to is revised, which removed a few of the 60's stories and replaced them with others).

If you are talking about Lovecraftian style storywriting from authors other than Lovecraft, you have plenty to choose from. There are several books which lump together some of the best works from authors that contribute to or are influenced by the "mythos" including Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos and The Children of Cthulhu

It's 3:30 in the morning, I have school at 8 and I was reading this lil' puppy to try to get to sleep before I gave up and went on Reddit.

So that's that.

I bought this collection. I have not finished it but so far there have been some great stories.

This is the collection I ended up with. It doesn't have everything, but it has all of the best stuff. EDIT: plus these Gollancz collections are the prettiest. There are a couple of Conan ones that I highly recommend.

This is another good one. It's a collection of stuff that edited, reworked or completely rewrote for other authors, so there's a lot of his voice in it, only with a wider range of styles and themes.

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Here is a link to the in print book containing hounds plus many other Cthulhu mythos goodies
https://www.amazon.com.au/Tales-Cthulhu-Mythos-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/034542204X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523742862&sr=8-1&keywords=Tales+of+the+Cthulhu+Mythos

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Cthulhu-Mythos-H-Lovecraft/dp/034542204X

This anthology contains one of my all-time favorite stories set in that universe- The Freshman by Philip Jose Farmer.

Also Crouch End from Stephen King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes!