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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gregweller" data-source="post: 143220" data-attributes="member: 879">I finally got my copy of CoC today, and I was happy to see that in the Recommended Reading list they included a number of stories by Jorge Luis Borges (although I was puzzled as to why they didn't mention 'There Are More Things' which is actually dedicated 'to the memory of H.P. Lovecraft). I've always loved his story 'Tlon, Uqbar and Orbis Tertius' , which has one of the great opening lines of all time: 'I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia'.  I've been starting to think about what other literary sources could be mined for Mythos inspiration, even if the works are not explicitily part of the Mythos 'canon'.  As a starting point, I'll suggest William S. Burroughs, especially his novel sequence 'Naked Lunch', 'The Soft Machine', 'Nova Express', 'The Ticket that Exploded', and 'The Wild Boys'. It's always seemed to me that he owes a lot to Lovecraft. His whole idea of the 'Nova Mob' that appears throughout these novels is cut from the same cloth as the Great Old Ones. For people looking for a place to start, I'd especially recommend the passage about 'Bradley the Buyer' and the sections 'The Black Meat' and 'The Market' from Naked Lunch. (Cronenberg's movie of the novel is also a good place to start, as well as the Duran Duran video of 'the Wild Boys').  Other writers?</blockquote>