Need some books with a similar vibe to HP Lovecraft
I really enjoy the story of At the Mountains of Madness but I can’t get into his writing style. would love some suggestions for similar books from different authors. Thanks yall!
HP Lovecraft is singular, so you won’t really find anything else “like it,” but a very large amount of fantasy and horror writing created after Lovecraft owes a lot to the worlds he created; in fact a great deal of all fantasy that came after HPL can be said to take inspiration from it.
If you want to experience something similar but different, there’s a couple ways you could go. Firstly, you could read his contemporaries like Robert E Howard’s Conan, or Talbot Mundy’s fantasy stuff, or even Lord Dunsany’s stuff. You would be looking for Victorian era fantasy. There’s plenty of it.
The other approach I can think of is checking out something more recent that draws inspiration from Lovecraft (which is a lot). The most Lovecraft-like author that is not Lovecraft is Clark Aston-Smith. The Book Of Hyperborea kind of melds Howard and Lovecraft together in a way that’s a lot more accessible than either of them, but leans more heavily towards Lovecraft in his mysticism.
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HP Lovecraft is singular, so you won’t really find anything else “like it,” but a very large amount of fantasy and horror writing created after Lovecraft owes a lot to the worlds he created; in fact a great deal of all fantasy that came after HPL can be said to take inspiration from it.
If you want to experience something similar but different, there’s a couple ways you could go. Firstly, you could read his contemporaries like Robert E Howard’s Conan, or Talbot Mundy’s fantasy stuff, or even Lord Dunsany’s stuff. You would be looking for Victorian era fantasy. There’s plenty of it.
The other approach I can think of is checking out something more recent that draws inspiration from Lovecraft (which is a lot). The most Lovecraft-like author that is not Lovecraft is Clark Aston-Smith. The Book Of Hyperborea kind of melds Howard and Lovecraft together in a way that’s a lot more accessible than either of them, but leans more heavily towards Lovecraft in his mysticism.