Tell us your favorite H.P. Lovecraft story or character, and win this collection!

Edward

Lance

Easy, Whisperer in the Darkness. 1)It’s got a badass name 2)the concept of aliens that don’t conquer the earth is because it would be too much work is terrifying 3) It genuinely freaked me out the first time I read it.

Reanimator by far one of my favorites. The setting and the fact that they use the dean's body who was not cool with the reanimation experiments Woop Woop!!

The Mollusk Rising

Definitely the Mountains of Madness. I read it in high school and once I got past the language it really was a mind trip of a book. The prospect of witnessing something so terrible and so strange that you can’t describe it and it drives you to the edge. Plus I can see where “the thing from outer space” and “The Thing” were 100% adaptations of the book.

Keifer Martin

My favourite is Cthulhu. I liked seeing Bieber get sent to the shadow realm. Me lucky. 🦀

The dunwich horror, don’t have a favorite character unfortunately

Robert Woodard

At the Mountains of Madness

Fart

I'm gonna say Cthulhu, but that's only because I haven't read any Lovecraft books yet. I've always loved the design and concept of Cthulhu though, so if you guys wanna introduce a new reader to the Lovecraft series you should consider me!

Destroyman

Cthulhu

Don't know if it's too late, but I must submit Charles Dexter Ward.

There was a ping on my phone, I was, on , christian mingle. She said she wanted too meet me for beers, and a game of pocket hockey. So I went, it was then I stood face too face, with the ugh, (Breaths in fear trying too calm down), the Catfish Man.

Gary Czernick

Dagon nigga

Andrew James

I like eggs

Haven't read any of them, but I've been thinking about doing so for a long while. If you don't give it to me, at least give it to one of the others that haven't actually read them yet.

WC

Never read them but I've always wanted to...so I'm gonna say my fav character is Cthulhu cos he looks cool and daddy like tentacles. I promise I'll read em'! I swear!

Hieronymus

I haven't read any of his work which is all the more reason to give them to me.

Harry S

The outsider was super creepy

David

The Outsider

Jose Nicasio

I dont have a favorite as I have never actually read any of his work. Pick me and I probably won't read them out of spite but it would be a cool addition to my library

Dunwich horror

Irving Zisman

Dagon is my favorite. It hit me at a very fitting time in my life and inspired much of the pessimistic platitudes that fuel my love for your delicious fried content!

Ethan T

My favorite Lovecraft story was "The Picture in the House." I like the entire story and can feel the tension as it builds through the two characters lengthy conversation with one another. I distinctly remember reaching the end while reading it in a crowded classroom and everything around me went mute. The spattering on the picture from blood leaking from the ceiling, I literally felt fear rush up through my spine when I read it. It was the first time I'd ever felt legitimately scared when reading something, and it was in broad daylight with people everywhere around me. I will never forget that story or that feeling of tension culminating to that very point.

Rinpoo

Call of Cthulu. The title character is definitely the character that had the most impact on pop culture, and probably the reason we are still taking about Lovecraft today.

Spazzitron McGee

The Outsider was cool when I read it as a kid

Owen Smith

At the mountains of madness because it's the only one I've read so far, but not for long.

Andrew Røre

At The Mountains of Madness. I would kill for a proper film adaptation, Del Toro was suppose to be adapting it but it got shut down.

Rats in the walls, and "Niggerman". Hahahah. I know he would drive ALLL of you insane with his EVIL UN-WOKENESS.

Sean Gallant

Shadow over innsmouth because call of Cthulu is an awesome game.

Chandler Gibbens

Cthulhu, because that's the only one i know, because if i did know, i wouldn't be in a competition to win the collection.

Rubick

Colors from outer space. Imagine the thing makes TJ only see the most boring color one can imagine. He's not able to enjoy anything he sees anymore as it's boring him to death.

Ξ Dante Ξ

Call of Cthulhu. I've always been into underwater monsters.

Denis517

I haven't read any of his books, but who best to get them! It's not that I don't read, but am currently homeless and well extra books to haul around and the cost of a book when I survive on $780 a month. Still I would accept these books as I need a fucking distraction from reality. -Presifundent. ( Wanna train me dff?). It will be all new to me and perhaps makeup a bit for so much lost property.

Christopher Borra

I just imagine tj, paul, and scotty as individual sea Captains going to ontight the dagon. They would all have separate stories where they are just obliterated.

Keegan Znosko

Dreams in the Witch House

My favourite!

Nico G.

The Cats of Ulthar is my favorite story. I just love the idea of animal abusers getting their just desserts, especially from the very type of animals they were hellbent on killing.

Cat the Cat

The True form of Wilbur Whateley in "The Dunwich Horror", as he transforms in the library from his goat-like appearance to that of the otherwordly spawn of of Shub-Niggurath. Although he isn't a central character, something about him was imposing and memorable

Skeptical Jesus

Its gott be At The Mountains Of Madness!!!

Michael Ritz

I would just say Cthulhu, but also I am not a huge fan... yet but I think that you guys would go insane in the call of Cthulhu for sure.

jacob g

My favorite story for sentimental reasons is The Outsider, which my father first read to me when I was very little and was captivated by the work of art. When I was a little older and started reading it on my own, my favorite story for the content of the tale became The Mountains of Madness, because I liked how utterly alien this ancient civilization was, hidden away under the Antarctic ice for countless eons.

The story with the thing and the person and that stuff happens. Absolute greatness.

Morden Is Alive

The thing on the doorstep always freaked me out. Even though you could consider it one of his more "tame" stories(no outer-god mind fuckery) , the concept of losing your body to someone else is pretty horrifying. Also, who wouldn't shit brix if they found out that they were bangin some old ass fish dude.

max carito

The shadow over insmuth

Mdxfiend

I like his essay on why cats are the pets of choice for higher quality humans

Jeremy M Preston

The unnamed character from Dagon. His narration is concise and to the point. Also love dat emo edge.

Franklin Roosevelt's cat

My favorite hp carachter is yog-sothoth I love the idea of an all knowing all seeing chaotic daemon god

Gregory Darnell

My favourite story I've read of his is probably Dagon or The Colour OUt Of Space.

TJ is the greatest lovecraft character for he is HP reincarnated

Rocky Alvillar

Doctor Pretorius from 'From Beyond'

Marcus Esbach

The thing on the doorstep. You would go insane upon recognizing that the putrefying female corpse (that scotty would probably try to mount) is actually inhabitated by a man. Because of your transphobia.

dddddddddddrunit

Call of Cthulhu because of how much knowing Cthulhu was a thing would give Paul fuck tons of Anxiety

Dagon. You would go insane because being alone at the ocean and seeing a humanoid creature in a grotto would drive anyone mad

The Color Out of Space is my favorite Lovecraft story. It drives insane those that see it. Very similar to the Steven King bit from Creep Show (I think they probably ripped off Lovecraft for that one), but instead of it being a goo inside the meteor it's simply a glowing color which cannot exist and thus drives the observer mad.

Zero Divisor

The Colour of Space

Luke

Stories of the dreamlands

James Chambers

I think Warcraft took the Lovecraftian theme and ran with it pretty well. The Azshara storyline, the old gods and the impact theyve had on lore and story. And still after 14 years of WoW the old gods are largely mysterious, even though we have killed 3 of them in the game. I think thats cool, killing a big bad monster and still not knowing a whole lot about it.

Muck Granitehammer

The Dunwich Horror

PaulFetishist

Azathot

My favorite monster is the Color out of Space, and it was drive Paul insane because he doesn't do very well seeing disturbing things while he's tripping

Jacob Martin

The Colour out of Space is the only story to this day that has captured my imagination in such a scary and amazing way.

It's hard to pick a favourite, but I'd have to go with the Colour out of space, because I've always been rather sensitive to the alien horrors moreso than other types, even as a child. What's really the clutch for me is that out of all of his stories that I know, this one has the most realism attached to it. Many others like the Call and Dunwich horror have conscious actors in it, eiter as the main monsters or as cultists, while the thing in Colour has no semblence of what we'd call a consciousness or a "self" so to say, which is far more likely to be the "aliens" we encounter some day.

Thallion

Herbert West - Re-Animator

Matthew Osga

Rats in the walls

Zayodadong

I've always liked The White Ship because it's not so sci-fi that you can't relate to it. It's something we might all be able to relate to, if not from a personal standpoint, then from an empathetic one. Anyone who has been responsible for something terrible happening, or know someone who is, or anyone who can put themselves in someone else's shoes can understand that. Maybe you or someone you know has texted and drove or drank and drove, and it resulted in an accident. Maybe you or someone you know have lost a pet or a child because you/they weren't paying attention. Just a good story that has been re-told in many different ways over the years. Also, when this contest was announced on the show, I instantly thought of the Swineherd because the Pessimists are fat cucks, and I thought of Nigger Man the cat from the same story because the Pessimists are fat cucks...

I'm not going to waste your time giving you pissant bullshit. I haven't read any of Lovecraft's work because I just haven't had the motivation to go out and buy an anthology at a book store, or even go to Amazon. But if for some ungodly reason I win this, I'll read the fuck out of those books. Little snippets I've read in the past almost always peaked my interest.

BaeCityAnri

Dunwich horror is probably my favorite story. The perspective of the main character for the first half while still having a layer of mystery to what is going on is fantastic. The second half where they need to hunt down the spawn of yoga sothoth was super pulpy but fun and didn't undermine the tone of the story. PS: the story herbert west reanimator has got to have one of the most racist descriptions of a black man I have ever read in my entire life.

Code_e

The Terrible Old Man. Three robbers in the book. Three hosts on this show. Just keep a look out for old fucks with yellow eyes guys

Brent Strange

Cthulhu! He talks so loudly in his sleep he drives people insane. It would drive Paul crazy for sure. Tj is already insane and scotty is a Cthulu worshipper.

Patrick Lynch

I love the Dunwich Horror, I used to take it and the Mothman Prophecies camping with me and it would scare the shit out of me at night when I did solo trips. I really like Lovecraft's work, but I honestly haven't read too many!

Dungeons and Deadlifts

It's gorilla. I have never read the books but I already know that these otherwordly cosmic entities ain't got no chance against my boy gorilla. We have seen him victorious against the likes of other animals, Boba Fett and even God himself, what's to say he can't go further? That he can't venture beyond? When the playing ground is even and gorilla faces off against these eldritch horrors, gorilla will show them the true meaning of fear. Gorilla can't comprehend what he sees before him, but gorilla doesn't care. Gorilla is immune to their maddening psychological effects because truth be told, gorilla is already crazy. Gorilla is angry. Gorilla bites and gorilla punches his way to victory.

Robert Sandee

Rats in the walls

Daniel Melle

Dr. Segmento?

Hans Brandt

Obviously, any TRUE fan of Lovecraft knows, the true, unfathomable unmatched power of none other than Gorilla. Try as they might, many have been left utterly dejected, in a state of absolute failure, when trying compare the power of Gorilla against other characters of fiction. Gorilla remains so undefeated, all copies of his penultimate work of fiction “Gorilla” were banned, and cannot be found for purchase. But this didn’t stop a young, Paul Everett Parkey, from trying desperately, to find anyone, anything, that could rival the power of Gorilla, before finally being driven into insanity.

Ricklyn Manchez

Shub Niggurath because it makes people uncomfortable and I liked how it was used in The Fractured Butt Whole.

Austin

The Color Out Of Space is my favorite. To me it seems like a precursor to Cronenberg with its twisting of biology with horror beyond our understanding. Its a great starting point for anyone who wants to get into Lovecraft.

Ryan Industries

Azathoth, The Blind Idiot God, The Deep Dark, The Cold One. Sat in its throne, dreaming, lulled comatose by infernal, monotonous, and eternal pipings. Our being, our reality, its hallucinations, its primordial madness, they are indistinguishable. At the throne of chaos, unborn of inexplicable origin, it lies dreaming. And with the ceaseless beating of a deathless drum, its quietus drones on without beginning. The burning archer notches where the blind idiot sleeps, and it leaves nothing but an insatiable, voracious hunger. To die, to sleep; we are, it wakes, we are. No more. ÏÆ ÏÆ AZAOTH PHTAGN! ÏÆ ÏÆ AZAOTH PHTAGN! ÏÆ ÏÆ AZAOTH PHTAGN!

MinimusDongus

Shub-Niggurath or “The Lord of The Woods” easily. It would drive all of DFF sex hungry hosts and fans insane as soon as we saw its horrible black visage. As TJ stares into her black goat eyes all the sick vore porn he has watched over his life would be burned into his eyes. Weird ass porn is all he can see and as it over comes him he goes mad and tries to swallow Pauls fat ass whole crying out to his new god “Ia! Shub Niggurath!” Scotty tries to stop TJ but soon finds himself thinking of lava bugs and slipping into her sweet web of madness too.

Colten Drennen

I must ask you guys, is the new DOUCHEBAG BIBLE different from the old? I noticed the storenvy page said the MUSINGS OF A SUBHUMAN portion is abridged, how so?

MrFings

Azathot the blind idoit god, cuz i think the pessimists can relate

Diederik De Soete

My favorite story is the shadow over innsmouth I just love the imagery of people making deals with fishy entities to make their town prosper and the main character realizing his relation to the people he was roundly shitting on was clever and cool

Vladamir Dracula

Shub-Niggurath is probably my favorite entity as a plot device, apart from everyone's number one, great Cthulhu. I haven't delved too deep into the stories yet, but some of my favorites so far are The Call of Cthulhu, The Nameless City, and The Dunwich Horror.

Ceph

Never read em, guess I need these books the most!

Jason Madrid

My favourite Lovecraft character is Shub-Niggurath..... Even though I can't say that as a white man.

Adolf of Londor

My favorite Lovecraft character is Randolph Carter in ‘The Silver Key.’ Carter is widely recognized as Lovecraft’s author insert character. He has placed him in several stories including ‘The Statement of Randolph Carter,’ ‘The Unnamable’ and ‘The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,’ but ‘The Silver Key’ is quite possibly the most autobiographical of all of Lovecraft’s stories. The opening paragraph quite possibly gives you the greatest hint as to Lovecraft’s state of mind in 1926. “When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. Prior to that time he had made up for the prosiness of life by nightly excursions to strange and ancient cities beyond space, and lovely, unbelievable garden lands across ethereal seas; but as middle age hardened upon him he felt these liberties slipping away little by little, until at last he was cut off altogether.“ Here Lovecraft has articulated what most people probably feel when they have reached adulthood and have had their dreams crushed by the cold sledgehammer of reality.

Raymond Wallman

My favorite story is ‘At the Mountains of Madness’. I feel the story drove the protagonist insane due to learning the reality of the universe and how all of earths history was misunderstood by all of humanity. Also, I love ‘The Cats of Ulther’... because I love cats and they get their revenge.

MissWrenBird

My favorite thing is that i don't know anything about it.

My absolute favorite monster is Nyarlethotep, he is like the joker of the mythos. I, I mean he ;), could drive you guys insane by first, making one of you guys insane with his Pharaoh form, and then shapeshifting into that pessimist and fucking with the rest of you by making little mini deals with the devil that slowly builds. Like for tj it could be he offers a pack of cigs that never run out but each cig burns quicker than the last. And then tj slowly becomes fixated towards this pack and slowly descends into madness. As well as using your pet peeves against you.

Cade Sauer

Who the fuck is H.P. Lovecraft?

Shawn Johnson

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Narrator in The Lurking Fear. Just the way he isn’t phased by people being maimed and horribly killed all around him, but the notion of a bunch of inbred cannibals and strange shadows scare the shit out of him.

CampCounselerSteve

My favorite story is The Colour Out of Space. I read it in an AP Literature test and did an analysis about it, and I was never able to find it again until you talked about it on this episode. I also learned that it is a Lovecraft story, so bonus! And if you'd like to know why I liked it, my reason is that it gave me the idea that perhaps aliens don't have to be humanoid, and it got me to realize how unreasonable it is for us to assume aliens will be bipedal primate-esque things with large eyes. It got me to think bigger about the possibilities of what aliens could be. And the idea that they will come as spores also got me wondering this: could they already be here without our knowledge?

"The color out of space" Lovecraft's works are about the fear of the unknown, and nowhere is that encapsulated better than in this story. It portrays creatures from outer space as truly foreign and alien to us, and extremely frightning because of it.

Misgellsson

the nameless city I've always loved this one because of its description of a lost ruin that is in the middle of the desert. it's described in a way that makes it sound once great but now fallen which reminds me a lot of ozymandias invoking the concept that all civilization is fragile and finite, that it will end eventually. The description of the city and the creatures within the city slowly lead the character describing it to madness but his name is never revealed. I love these type of stories by lovecraft because, like many, it’s a description of events that have already happened, other favorites like nyarlathotep and the statement of randolph carter also are told similarly. Anyway, one of the first i’d come across, one of the best descriptions of the decrypted horror of a fallen city, and next to no explanation of who or what the lizard people are. So good.

damien glenn

The Dunwich Horror

spaceSuicide

Meh thats wank

splatsupporter

I don't understand why my comment disappeared, I left this as a comment a few hours ago both on youtube and on patreon... My favorite story is, The Color Out of Space! And my favorite monster is Yog-Sothoth! All hail Yog-Sothoth! Salvador ('Umr at-Tawil) will open the Gate of the Silver Key, and unleash the spirit of the ancient one Tape Fingers. The new mysterious kitten (Aforgomon) will finish what Squex (The Eater of Souls) started by infecting TJ with the seed of Shub-Niggurath (The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young) which will slowly take over TJ's mind, of course driving him further into madness. This will cause TJ to unknowingly invoke the most ancient one. There will be no more TJ after the invocation of Tape Fingers only a shell of a man will remain. One night soon while Chelsea sleeps Nova (Nug) will impregnate her with his seed, and only moments later as she screams in agony while giving birth to Cthulhu. TJ will awaken from his deep and restless slumber only to see familiar shadows the shadows that have been taking over his mind. The only thing TJ sees are those tentacles and just as TJ opens his mouth to scream or perhaps to worship, his head explodes releasing Azathoth (The Blind Idiot God) from his prison. And once the powers of these old gods have been released into our mortal realm, they can summon forth into the physical form of Tape Fingers, the most feared of all the ancient ones. Thus bringing an end to the world...

Jason Moore

Yog Sothoth-because the terror of his arrival alone would be to much for your minds to handle.

Isaiah Miller

The Thing on the Doorstep. Because that is what you do to your friends.

Hannes Joutsen

You forgot the word man at the end

Ethan Disho

My favorite character is Lovecrafts cat named Nigger

Buzzkiller

Not my favorite story but the Narrator from Herbert West Re-animator comes to mind as my favorite charachter. (check out the film Jeffery Coombs plays Herbert West, he was Weyoun on DS9). Unlike most Lovecraft protagonists hes more or less on board the whole time with Herbert's schemes and comes out unscathed by Lovecraft's take on the Frankenstein story. If the Narrator were to befriend the pessimists and collaborate with them in their scams it would be a fruitful relationship for many years. Over time as the patreon grows and the gang is forced to push the envelope further and further until a damaged narrator is the only one to escape the wicked and depraved dff climax of 666 hr show with his life, forever scarred by the horrors that took place.

TheKekromancer

I’ve always loved The Hound, it has some of Lovecraft’s most macabre and imagination-tingling descriptions, it features the debut of the Necronomicon and the protagonist is relatable in a way. You rarely get a main character so obviously indulgent in occult and general morbidity, especially in cosmic horror, where most protagonists are disgruntled detectives, hermit writers or investigative reporters. I think it’s a little slept on, to be honest.

My favorite story is The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, because of the character Nyarlathotep. Unlike most of the evil beings in his stories, Nyarlathotep isn't banished to some other dimension or star, he is active and walks the Earth. He recruits his followers by demonstrations of his strange and magical instruments. He doesn't necessarily drive his followers insane, but I guess you could think of it that way. As the followers do Nyarlathotep's bidding, they start to lose their sense of the real world around them. So i guess that counts. He is said to look like a tall, thin, badass looking Pharaoh dude, but he has "a thousand forms" So that's also cool. Great episode boys!

Clyde Frog

I loved Wilbur Whatelely from the Dunwich Horror. Its disturbing that when he was born with his twin brother the Dunwich horror after his mother summoned Yog-sothoth, the hills shook and the dogs were whipped up into a barking frenzy, he then rapidly ages over the course of 9 years into a 9ft giant humanoid beast of a man and is still perpetually attacked and agitated by neighbours dogs. When he's told his true purpose by his grandfather being the son of Yog-sathoth, its his duty to open the gates of his prison to earth using a complete necronomicon, he attempts to steal all the last pieces of the necronomicon from Cambridge, the Miskatonic and Widener Libraries but is killed by security dogs. when he is found, he's since become a half human half cosmic abomination with fur covering his body, large eyes on his abdomen and tentacles protruding from his body reminiscent of the dunwich horror and Yog-Sothoth. and then... he disintegrates into a puddle of white goo.

Probably Dagon.

Andrew Biresch

The Dunwich Horror

Jackson Parrish

buttz

Oh' Long Johnson

I honestly don't think I've gotten to read a lovecraft story yet, on the "to do list" but just haven't.

Psycho

Shadows Over Innsmouth. Hands down. TJ would happily join the cultists. Paul would wonder out into the surf and willingly be swallowed by the call of madness. Scotty would try to figure out what was going on before realizing he was in way over his head and leave, but would never fully recover from the experience. His friends and family would barely notice a difference. Stevey would show up for a day, do a terrible job fixing the stuck church door, and then leave never even realizing anything weird was going on.

Redd Skair

My favorite story is the Call of Cthulhu, and my favorite character from Lovecrafts works is also Cthulhu(original, I know) but not only does he drive people insane just due to how physically incomprehensible he is to humans, he would also drive TJ completely insane because that would mean that gods do exist, thus ending TJ's entire career, and discrediting everything he's said about there being no such thing as a God or Gods

Im_lightning

The Colour Out of Space

My favorite love craft story is "the lurking horror", I believe that this story would drive paul insane. I imagine that for some god knows what reason TJ on a finally fulfils his scammer promise for a road trip around America with the peasants. Unfortunately due to TJ and Scotty arguing about directions and are now lost in the deep thickets of the woods. As they turn in for the night Paul starts to get paranoid, due to the restless noises of the dark forest and cannot sleep while the Kirk brothers rest peacefully. Eventually they are all awoken by horrid scream remenicing of a mourning woman's wails. Eventually due to a bet of $1000 Scotty goes out to take a look as soon as he steps out of side TJ and Paul hear a loud crack and a body hitting the ground and being dragged away. TJ unable to get service and cannot call for help runs out side just in front of the door to try and see Scotty. Unfortunately as Paul watches in horror all he sees is TJ being pulled into the ground in an instant, and at that moment the fear took him over he closed the door took the keys and booked it to the nearest town. With no bodies except for a smattering of blood and some strange craters surrounding where the RV was parked it was ruled as some sort of animal attack. After months and months of Paul receding into a depressive, self destructive, habit eventually in a dark room covered in a mixture of Cheeto and funyun dust paul eventually succumbed to his self hate and wallowing. He decides to end it with pills and alcohol and writes a last message witten on the walls saying "they come from the ground".

Logan day

My favorite is At the Mountains of Madness. I don't remember which Lovecraft story I read first, but this is the first one that I clearly remember reading. I was immediately hooked in by the detail of the exposition. I really enjoyed the descriptions of the equipment on the plane and the planning and the initial journey. I felt like Lovecraft had done some real research into how these sorts of expeditions were conducted: even if he mostly made it up, it sounded so realistic and believable. .....Well, I'd like to do a line break here, but apparently, I can't..... The attention to detail in the beginning, and the continued detail throughout lent some realism to the fantastical portions. The story is so detailed and believable in the mundane that the continuation of that detail makes the otherworldly elements seem just as realistic. ....Line Break..... Much of the story is spent building credibility. I really like that. I reads like a real account of events. ...LB.... I'm not sure that this should be someone's first Lovecraft reading, because it is a bit long, and it builds slowly, but it's definitely my favorite.

OsculatingPlane

My favorite story of Lovecraft is The Lurking Fear. The atmosphere of tale was creepy and had this very nice atmosphere to it. Plus the reveal of who the mobsters was was really disturbing. Shined a light on how mankind can truly descend into the darkness. In more ways than one.

Balgus4

I love "Pickman's Model"!!! Not as much as i love you guys!!!

Mitchell A Miller

I’d have to say that my favorite is At the Mountains of Madness. I got this story from the library once, and it did not disappoint! The setting of Antarctica always lends an element of mystery, because of its difficult climate, the ancient secrets that are preserved there, and its isolation from the rest of civilization. The descriptions of scenery were detailed and chilling. One of the most feared monsters that isn’t a Great Old One is also described in this story, but I won’t spoil it for you if you haven’t read it. This story also inspired one of the best chapters and most interesting lore in Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhrazed by Donald Tyson. That book is probably the most amazing tribute to everything ever inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, in my opinion, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to any Lovecraft fan. I would say that a runner-up to At the Mountains of Madness is probably The Color Out of Space, because it does a great job at making a threat and something very alien out of Color, of all things.

Josh Jones

I’ve always been a huge Lovecraft fan, read many of his stories. He was a constant inspiration for my art and pretty much a cornerstone for all things cool for me. “Call of Cthulhu” and “Dagon” will always be my favorites. Cthulhu is a cultural staple but there is an inherent creepiness to Dagon that you just can’t shake.

Ryan Gilliam

I have to go with the Dunwich Horror. It's more old fashioned but the descriptions are so vivid.

Max O.

One of my favorites is The Whisperer in Darkness. And much like in that story, I would love to put TJ’s consciousness in a brain cylinder. As he makes the trip to Yuggoth, he slowly begins to realize that without a physical body he can never masturbate again. Thus begins his decent into madness...

Chris Cook

Abe Lincoln

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At The Mountain of Madness

Wjyndigo

Sounds awesome, I need to read that one!

Wjyndigo

ithaqua because he's HOT

Gemma Hutchison

The Colour out of Space. That one where the meteor falls and theres a bunch of shiny goop inside that kills a rural village and turns it into a spooky mutant hellscape.

The Colour Out of Space

DJ

I absolutely love the lore of the deep ones ever since I read Shadow over Innsmouth. He's just so good at building this atmospheric universe with subtle back story.

Detectiveboi

At The Mountain of Madness :)

Adam D

Cant answer, listening to the show anyway but i've never had the chance to read one. I guess this is an invalid entry, but if i were to receive these books i would read them voraciously.

Mulberry

Dagon.

Nicholas Babcock

At the mountain of madness!

John Thompson

The movie version of Dagon is worth a watch

Jeremy St.onge

The Call of Cthulu

Christopher

Erich must play his music to keep monsters & demons at bay. And then que in a college student looking for a place to lodge and he somehow stumbles into unreality and into Erichs home. Shit hits the fan as the student pervents poor erich zahns from playing his music. Now they are fucked and reality fucking starts warping into some crazy shit!

Ethan Disho

Beyond the wall of sleep

Jeremy St.onge

Game of the Rings

Peter Adamson

Dagon (story) Yogg Saron from wow based on love craft(character)

Joshmyninja

Spoiler! You lose, sir! Good day!

PESSIMIST PRODUCTIONS

Nigger man

Nico G.

The Colour Out of Space has always been a favorite of mine. A tale of a relentless spread of madness and death from an extraterrestrial body has never been told better.

By far "The Nameless City".

Alexander Grimnir

The music of erich zann

Ethan Disho

The Rats in the Walls is my favorite

Vickerfly

Mountains of Madness

Mark Trajkovski

Oh wait. Thats Curious George. Shit.

Daghlas Al-Ashqar

I like when cthulu eats the puzzle piece and the man in te yellow hat takes him to the hospital.

Daghlas Al-Ashqar

Definitely Rats in the Walls. They put off a production of it in my local area a number of years ago in a creepy old wine vault from the 19th century. Creepy as hell. hah

Brent Slade

My favourite character has to be Joseph Curwen

Boffjamin

At the Mountains of Madness is cool.

ShoreMcLoving

Nyarlathotep

Pickman model and Eliot he is the audience thats intrigued by Pickmans ghoulish works

Comofreak01

The Call of Cthulu is the only one I've read, so I don't have much choice

Jane'e Taylor

Never read H.P Lovecraft so looked up a couple and I like Azathoth or the blind idiot God. The outer Gods dance round him when a demonic flute plays apparently and it lives in the centre of the milky way. Pretty badass if you ask me.

Pissed off mushroom

Mountains of madness : The mystery of the newly explored Antarctic is examined in such an amazingly eerie way. From the disappearce of the research team, the towering mountains, and the foray into ancient labyrinthine passages this story has it all

Call of Cthulhu is the best!

Sex Wizard

The Shadow over Innsmouth. The story is gripping from the start and the build up to Zadok Allen telling the truth is amazing.

My favorite character is Wilbur Whately. Dogs hate him so you know he’s evil/possibly demonic, and the poor guy had to carry around a pistol at age 4 to avoid being mauled to death by irate canines. (He also grew *really* quickly, so he looked 13 by age 4, and like a middle-aged man by 15. Oh, and his mother is a half-wit, with an unknown father. Ooooooh—scary!)

It may be a little cliche, but Call of Cthulhu. And probably because that's the only one I've read. Also I'm the absolute worst at choosing favorites, so I'm just going with the damn cult. Without them, we wouldn't have the story. Lmao.

Austin Snyder

Rats in the Walls

Jon Graves

Has to be most mainstream viewpoint but I loved call of cthulhu!

TOOTHLESS RABBI

The Ghoul from The Outsider short story.

Matthew Stephans

The only one I've read is The Call of Cthulhu

Kimberly Winters

At the mountains of madness

Clifford P. Adams

The Nameless City

TBloom

The Doom That Came to Sarnath: An ancient town whose townsfolk worshiped a water lizard god. Subsequently, the ancient peoples were genocided and thier idols and corpses were buried beneath the lake where thier lizard god resided. The story ends with the lizard god rising up in the misty moonlight and transforming the descendants of the conquerers into grotesque looking lizard people.

Aaron Primack

Color out of Space is excellent I'm surprised I'm not seeing Shadow over Innsmouth represented here more, though

Noah Abrams-Smith

The shadow over innsmouth is simple and an easy choise but it made me really love Lovecraft and his works.

Yehaen

Call Of Cthulu is a good starting point in my opinion. It's got a good pace to it, and a more straight forward plot. Move up from there.

Easily the Dunwich Horror.

Caladan

Paul

CodeWiskeySky

The Dunwich Horror

The Colour Out of Space by far

The Outsider. Short and sweet.

Marcus Pappas

I dont want to win the books though, I have a set of HPLC books already.

S Chattey

I've always wanted to get into these books but have never started... What's a good one to start with?

DanFan

Azathoth, the blind idiot god

thebiggestbirdhouse

The Shadow out of Time! A great build up to the final reveal at the end. The perfect horror/mystery/thriller.

Justin

Nyarlathotep the Black Pharaoh. Born of Lovecrafts fear of Nikola Tesla who actually inhabited his nightmares. Yog Shothoth was indifferent to humanity, but Nyarlathotep found amusement in creating cults of mindless followers. Cthulu could kill all of humanity, but Nyarlathotep uses propaganda to fool humanity. I like to imagine him being bored of his family of Eldritch horrors, and coming to humanity to have fun ruling them. Though really he wears a thousand faces and convinces us to worship them. Nyarlathotep is definitely my favorite of the Lovecraftian gods. Stalker among the stars, crawling chaos, and one of the three children of Azathoth. He's not only mysterious, creepy, and malicious, but he is also awake and among us.

The Dunwich Horror, which honesty is what I thought Paul was.. I secretly always knew undernwath is swaths of sweaty Fat was a the lineage of Yog-Sothoth and The Great Old Ones.. it is why Paul is both Wise but Salty, why he wishes the death of all mankind, why he wishes too reclaim the world in Nuclear Hellfire.. Paul is the Dunwich Horror.

Adrian Voss

He uses a style that is antiquated, you need to read a 1930s thesaurus to really get what hes saying XD.

The shadow over innsmouth

Bobby Maxwell

I wish I could contribute

MrFings

I have 'The Necronomicon" but couldn't get into his writing style. I just don't know wtf old HP is talking about.

c0lt

Shadow over Innsmouth. Reminds me of The Old Hunters in Bloodborne.

Cletus, the angry pro-life fetus

At the Mountains of Madness.

Dolla Billz

Pickman btw.

The dunwich horror for sure.

The Color Out of Space for various reasons, chief among them being because I really enjoy saying "THE BLASTED HEATH."

wereedbooks

Cthulhu. Duh

Marlin Benson

The Rats in the Walls

GC1931

The Music of Erich Zann hit me hard when I was in my teens.

Why are there so many books? I have two editions of his complete works in single books and neither of them are even close to as big as those put together.

The Colour Out of Space

Space Crusader

The outsider

Van Panda

I always loved the Music of Erich Zann and the Haunter of the Dark

Nicholas

Call of Cthulhu. Not necessarily the best, but it was the first one that introduced me to Lovecraft, and hooked me immediately.

Firefly should've been cancelled sooner

I like Color out of space. The story is rather simple but the part with the trees starting to swaying in the wind even though there is no wind is quite chilling.

Trapper

Pickman's Model is actually a pretty good one.

Erick Hecksher

The Shadow over Innsmouth, for sure

Adorable Bastard

CTHULU

The music of Eric Zahn, I love how its so mysterious and creepy

S Chattey

Wilbur Whateley from the Dunwich Horror

Andy Paterson

The Rats in the Walls is easily the scariest. Finding a portal to hell underneath your house is pretty terrifying. The imagery in that story is pretty fucked as well.

Brantley Vanhoek

Color out of space is a really good one!

Chris Cook

Himself. He often wrote his stories with a brilliant and creepy narrator, so it can be assumed to be him. So he is the best character of them all!

Darren Mikus

Dr Herbert West Reanimator. This could count as either.

Graham Paterson

Krang

Dep

Azathoth. The thought of a slumbering enormous hellbeast at the center of our universe as an energy source is not only horrifying, it is a possibility.

Heather Squidz

I love At The Mountains of Madness, just because it explains so much about the mythos!

Chris Cook

The dunwich horror

Jacob Meldrum

At the mountains of madness

Gene Allen

The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Justin Milette

The Music of Erich Zann

At the Mountain of Madness

Velator

The Call of Cthulhu

The Shadow over innsmouth

DonnySlime

The Dunwich Horror.

Vedren

The Whisperer In The Darkness. Not actually my favorite (Call Of Cthulhu), but I know alot of people will say Call Of Cthulhu, so I'm going with my second favorite to stand out.

ragnar degerfeldt

Reanimator, color out of space or the dunwich horror one of those are my favorite.

Jon-Claude Marquee

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Ghanori85

It has to be "The Call of Cthulhu"; I have its first sentence tattooed to my chest. "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

Stevie in a pink bunnie outfit, pretty sure its in there somewhere

SomeRandomCanadian

Dont worry I'll send you a set to live vicariously... >.>

Mavis Henry

Stories of the Dreamlands

Carlos Ibuki

Call of Cthulhu

DancingQueen

The Call of Cthulhu

Rage of Crom

The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath

allyn stone

Reanimator

Ethan Stute

Harry Potter

Aldo Hernandez

Shoggoth. I like how he remains a creature of immense power but instead of ruling the old world he insteads channels his power towards building the cities of the old. He has an almost admirable loyalty to a city........just a city, i wish he was expanded upon more.

NickyGoods

Dagon

I'm gonna say The Thing on the Doorstep because I found it creepy as fuck when the dudes rotting corpse decomposed on his friends porch. Also i find it funny as hell that its implied the narrators friend was banging an old man lol

Trevor Lahey

The Rats in The Walls

Do I get anything for knowing about Shub-Niggurath?

Bryan Turner

Yog Sothoth. The secrets of the cosmos are yours, if you dare.

AnObscureMage

The Nameless City

Color Out of Space

Defund Humanity

Nyarlathotep

I read a book once. It was very traumatic. You should absolutely not send me this collection because if you did, I'd be forced to read it and I might snap and go on a killing spree. You guys wouldn't want that on your conscience...would you?

GodsButtMonkey

My favorites are the Color out of Space and at the Mountains of Madness

Zachariah Rossman

I don't care just give me free shit

Harrison Guy

Herbert West- Reanimator!

FTWapples

Mountains of Madness or Shadow over Innsmouth

Nipples Peelov

Azathoth.

Murph

At The Mountains Of Madness

Terrance Labriola

The Color Out of Space, for sure.

Mendacious C

At the mountains of madness, or the outsider

Shaunn Marshall

The Shadow over Innsmouth

Garrett R

Definitely The Raven

Ryan Reed

The dunwich horror

Graublut

That poem about how black people were created? I kid, I kid. Already have this collection.

Helly Selznick

He, or The Color Out of Space. fav collection is The Dunwich Horror and Others.

Carter Graceson

The Colour Out Of Space

Samantha Sledge

The Blind idiot God Azathoth of course.

clayton williamson

Cthulu is the shit

Ryan Faulknor

The Shadow Out of Time

Nyarlathotep

At the Mountain of Madness

Mr. Big Stuff

I’ve never actually got to read any of them but would love too read an entire collection

Danny McGuire

The Shadow Out of Time

Corey

Call of Cthulhu audiobook on youtube is the shit

Home of da BONE

Pickman's Model, because I like to imagine it's H R Giger's secret origin

Harvey Manfrenjensenden

Beyond the Mountains of Madness has to be the best

Adam Cook

The Colour Out of Space

Blake Perez

Nyarlathotep! And for a story "At the mountains of madness"

HeartofBarkness

I never read HP Lovecraft but I want to, so how about send the books my way! Do it you pussies.

Dean Toledano

The Dunwich Horror

Berzerk

The dunwich horror!!!!

Marko362

Yog-Sothoth best elder. Best story would be my first one (so I'm biased) would be The Shunned House. really turned me on to Lovecraft big time.

Japester

Never read any but that collection would be a good start

SomeGuy

Dream Quest of an Unknown Kadath

John Becker

At the mountains of madness

My piss is thick like a gas-station slushy and lilly chugs it

The Outsider!

Hulkster x

From beyond

reese jones

The Rats in the wall

Kanece

Call of Cthulu!

Rip, I'm too retarded to read

The Thing on the Doorstep

Chloe Scout