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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 2227673" data-attributes="member: 4049">If you're looking for engaging dialogue, interesting or sympathetic protagonists, or subtlety, Lovecraft is not for you.  Lovecraft tells you everything, you rarely -- i every -- read character dialogue, and there is a sense of dread throughout the stories.However, what makes Lovecraft worth reading is the fact that he scoffs at the notion of human certainty or the suggestion that there's anything beneficent and hopeful in the universe beyond this little, green mudball planet.  There is a pervasive sense of doom in his writing related to the insigificance of humanity in the cosmic scale.  A more direct aspect of his writing deals with people searching out or getting involved in knowledge and/or situations in which they have no business.  More than anything, that's what draws me to Lovecraft.  It's ironic that this is a recurring theme in his shortstories, particularly those that are considered part of the "Cthulu Mythos."  I think Lovecraft was an atheist or at least agnostic; however, this idea that there are things that human beings have no business involving themselves in is something found in Christianity and Juadism.  At any rate I think the suggestions given to you are good ones.  I would just pick up a collection and read from there.  Also, buy one of the setting handbooks for The Call of Cthulu game.  I know that the one from WotC had many references to Lovecraft's stories and a bibliography of "Cthulu Mythos" stories and books from Lovecraft and those influence by him.</blockquote>

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