Although Lovecraft’s mythos is still a popular part of cosmic horror today, I found much of his fiction to be as dense, frustrating, and problematic as it is interesting, inspiring, and unique.

There are a couple of classics that I quite enjoyed (Dagon, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Moon-Bog, The Music of Erich Zann, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness) but most can be skipped whether you’re a fan of Lovecraft or not.