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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grumpy Celt" data-source="post: 1972495" data-attributes="member: 1019">It’s also worth noting that Lovecraft had friendships other writers, including:• Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, among many other bloody works,• Robert E Howard, writer and creator of the Conan series,• August Derleth, an editor who spindled Lovecraft’s stories to have a Christian good versus evil slant).These writers, among others, also contributed stories to world Lovecraft created, and this all was part of the process that created the Cthulu Mythos. However, with a very few exceptions, Lovecraft’s original stories are the best – even if he has sentences that go on for 70 words at a time and seems bent on exhaustively using the British spelling of every single word in the Thesaurus. The kind of giddy despair they show is as hard to resist as a bag of junk food.Personally, at the top of this list are • Rats in the Walls• Call of Cthulu• Pickman’s Model• Shadow out of Time• The Witch House• Shadow over Innsmouth• The Dunwich Horror Now I must be off, for odd angles beyond the boundaries of comprehension of the sane and decent minds of man are beckoning and maddening piping of flutes at the terrible nuclear heart of malevolent chaos are calling to me…</blockquote>