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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 765978" data-attributes="member: 2205">Yeah, but Lovecraft's writing quality is pretty scattered as well -- I do find some of his stories pretty creepy; I think &quot;The Case of Charles Dexter Ward&quot; is one of my favorites (although it's much more traditional and not as mythos-entrenched) for instance, and I've always liked &quot;At the Mountains of Madness.&quot;&nbsp; (BTW, for any editors out there, should a novella be in quotes like a short story, or should it be italicized like a novel?) but others are just strange for the sake of strangeness, and others still are just plain poorly written.I think the point made earlier is probably very valid -- only in the gaming industry is the whole &quot;mythos vision&quot; presented as something fairly coherent.&nbsp; I almost find that I enjoy reading the gamebooks more than some of the actual Lovecraft stories.BTW, I've never actually read a non-Lovecraft &quot;Cthulhu&quot; story, although I've read similar stuff by Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth a long time ago.&nbsp; Does there work really build on the core concepts of the mythos, or does it kinda put a spin on it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 765978, member: 2205"] Yeah, but Lovecraft's writing quality is pretty scattered as well -- I do find some of his stories pretty creepy; I think "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is one of my favorites (although it's much more traditional and not as mythos-entrenched) for instance, and I've always liked "At the Mountains of Madness." (BTW, for any editors out there, should a novella be in quotes like a short story, or should it be italicized like a novel?) but others are just strange for the sake of strangeness, and others still are just plain poorly written. I think the point made earlier is probably very valid -- only in the gaming industry is the whole "mythos vision" presented as something fairly coherent. I almost find that I enjoy reading the gamebooks more than some of the actual Lovecraft stories. BTW, I've never actually read a non-Lovecraft "Cthulhu" story, although I've read similar stuff by Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth a long time ago. Does there work really build on the core concepts of the mythos, or does it kinda put a spin on it? [/QUOTE]

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