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Originally Posted by Severian
Dude, fair enough, but his stories are the bedrock of an entire genre. For better or worse, dude was inventive as fuck.
There are some anthologies out there where other, better authors like Neil Gaiman and... I dunno, some others... write ABOUT Lovecraft characters, or in a Lovecraftian style. I haven’t read any of them, but maybe they’d be cool.
Gaiman is one of my favorites, and he’s taken Lovecraft’s love of made-up mythologies and pushed it into a more dynamic direction, where it’s not really Horror or even fantasy anymore, but something akin to (very) adult fairy tales, rooted in real mythologies, be they Celtcic, Norse or what have you.
Anyhoodle...
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Those anthologies are obviously hit and miss but the better ones are excellent. Certainly not just fan-fiction.
If you want to sample one, Dead But Dreaming edited by Kevin Ross has some great stories.
If you want to try a single authored collection that's clearly Lovecraftian (without necessarily making direct references to the mythos) Thomas Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe has some of the best horror writing I think I've ever read, period.
