While culling my bookshelves (a painful and endless endeavor), I discovered that Monte Cook and John Tynes' d20 Call of Cthulhu book includes quite a good bibliography. I select from among the listed works those I never read, read but forgot, or feel it's high time to read again:
- Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing", "The Suitable Surroundings", "The Moonlit Road", "Haita the Sheperd", and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa"
- Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows", "The Wendigo", "Ancient Lights", and "Entrance & Exit"
- Robert Bloch's "The Shambler from the Stars", "The Shadow from the Steeple", and "Fane of the Black Pharaoh"
- Jorge Luis Borges' (read him!) "The Book of Sand", "The Zahir", "The Circular Room", "The House of Asterion", "The Aleph", and "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
- extra points for including Johnathan Carroll's not explicitly Lovecraftian but excellent Land of Laughs
- Robert W. Chambers' "The Yellow Sign"
- All of Lord Dunsany's stories, but especially:
- "The Deeds of Mung"
- "A Shop in Go-by Street"
- "Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet"
- "The King That Was Not"
- "The Highwayman"
- "The Ghosts"
- "The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth"
- "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow"
- "Bethmora"
- "The Hashish Man "
- "Poor Old Bill"
- "The Field"
- "The Hoard of the Gibbelins"
- "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles"
- "Ghu-bu and Sheemish"
- "The City on Mallington Moor"
- "The Bureau d'Echange de Maux"
- "A Narrow Escape"
- "Taking Up Piccadilly"
- "The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)"
- "The Trouble in Leafy Green Street"
- "Lobster Salad"
- "How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Otford-under-the-Wold"
- "The Sac of Emeralds"
- "The Return" (presumably they mean "The Return of the Exiles")
- A Night at an Inn (a stage play)
- William Hope Hodgson's "The Hog", "The Whistling Room", "The Voice in the Night", "The Derelict", and The Boats of the Glen Carrig
- Henry James' "Count Magnus" and "The Jolly Corner"
- Henry Kuttner's "The Salem Horror", "Hydra", "The Eater of Souls", "The Invaders", and "Bells of Horror"
- Frank Belknap Long's "The Hounds of Tindalos" and "The Horror from the Hills"
- Fritz Leiber's "To Arkham and the Stars" and "Terror from the Depths"
- Thomas Ligotti's "The Sect of the Idiot", "The Last Feast of Harlequin", and "The Dark Beauty of Unheard Horrors"
- Arthur Machen's "The Novel of the White Powder", "The Novel of the Black Seal", "The White People", "The Inmost Light", and "The Shining Pyramid"
- A. Merrit's Dwellers in the Mirage and The Moon Pool
- All of Clark Ashton Smith stories (many of which I've lately read), but especially:
- "Genius Loci"
- "The Double Shadow"
- "The Return of the Sorcerer"
- "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
- "The Door to Saturn"
- "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis"
- "The Plutonian Drug"
- "The Empire of Necromancers"
- "The Charnel God"
- "The Maze of Maal Dweb"
- "The Nemesis of the Unfinished"
- "The Holiness of Azedarac"
- "The Beast of Averoigne"
- "The Enchantress of Sylaire"
- "The Mandrakes"
- "The Maker of Gargoyles"
- "The Colossus of Ylourgne"
- "The Disinterment of Venus"
- "Morthylla"
- "The Seven Geases"
- The Dead will Cuckold You (a stage play)
- W.B. Yeats' "Rosa Alchemica", "The Tables of the Law", and "The Adoration of the Magi"
This is an amazing good deed you've done putting all these links in one place, Paul - thanks!
ReplyDeleteAwesome list! I think I have read about 90% of it (and re-read because really, that is the good stuff). Thank you for comprising this, I need to be on the lookout for the other 10%.
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