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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1972621" data-attributes="member: 2205">It worked for me when I was a teenager.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But if you want another recommendation, the same collection wherein I read "The DreamQuest" also had "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" as well as various other shorter stories, which I've mostly forgotten now.  Those three were the first I read, and I think they're amongst the strongest he's written.  "The Shadow over Innsmouth," "The Dunwich Horror," and "Call of Cthulhu" are, on the other hand, probably the most "classic" of his stories, and the most iconic of his work in general, and are therefore good places to start.  After that, just pick up whatever else you've got included in the collections you've picked up.You can probably find most of his stuff in your local library, too.  For that matter, from time to time, I've found complete collections of Lovecraft stuff online, although technically I think it hasn't come into the public domain quite yet, and Arkham House seems to take a dim view of these online versions of the stories.  But there's still a place or two out there that have them.</blockquote>