The Mythos

[Faraer]

'The Mythos', as a codified structure, is Derleth's idea. Lovecraft's work is better appreciated outside that conception.

There are lots of good writers with Lovecraft elements in their work, including Robert Bloch, Hugh B. Cave, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, A.A. Attanasio, Jorge Luis Borges (try 'There Are More Things'), Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, T.E.D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Mark Samuels, and Karl Edward Wagner.

 

[teitan]

I don't know WHY I forgot this guy but Kenneth Grant, an occult author, has a series of novellas that owe much to the Mythos. They are expensive though. A list of titles by him that are fiction:

Against The Light

Stellar Lode

Snakewand and Darker Strain

Gamaliel and Dance, Doll, Dance

The Other Child and Other tales...

As for Non-Fiction he has written a series of trilogies on occult topics but the ones most tied to the mythos in my own readings are:

Hecate's Fountain

Outer Gateways

Nightside of Eden

But the latter three are very technical and hard to understand without a solid grounding in occultism and especially Aleister Crowley. While quite expensive at times definitely worth checking out.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

CAS and Ligotti pwn.

 

[jaerdaph]

Shadow over Baker Street (iirc), a collection of short stories that mix Sherlock Holmes and the Mythos. One of them, "A Study in Emerald", is by Neil Gaiman, of Sandman fame.

That collection was amazing, and I really enjoyed the twist at the end of the Gaiman story - brilliant! My other favorite in Shadows Over Baker Street was The Mystery of the Hanged Man's Puzzle by Paul Finch. There's an excellent description of Holmes and Watson's trek through the sewers of London, including mention of the Walbrook, a "lost" river of London that is now totally subterranean.

Another good collection of recent Cthulhu Mythos stories I enjoyed was The Tales of Inspector Legrasse by C. J. Henderson.

 

[grodog]

CAS fans should check out both the d20 guide to Zothique and Tom Moldvay's module X2 Castle Amber, which is based on CAS' Averoigne setting.

CAS and REH are my favorite Lovecraft-Mythos-inspired authors, though I also really enjoyed Pagan Publishing's Delta Green modern-CoC setting, and it's fiction anthologies (in particular the first one, Alien Intelligence).