I just got one of the best Lovecraftian gifts ever!

[Ruth - CthulhuChick]

My friend Terry, @GameCouch, had a flood last week and decided that he was going to sort through his books while he was cleaning up from it. He sent me this amazing box of Lovecraft/Lovecraftian books. So excited I just started yelling expletives (as those of you who follow me on Twitter may have seen). Besides comics of The Dunwich Horror (and Star Trek and a few other things he knows I like), it contained:

The Loved Dead,
Horror in the Museum,
Lurker at the Threshold (says HPL, actually Derleth),
The Watchers Out of Time (again Derleth),
Cthulhu's Reign,
Shib-Niggurath Cycle
Hastur Cycle,
Necronomicon,
Cthulhu 2000,
Cthulhu Mythos,
The Robot (?),
Trail of Cthulhu: Shadows Over Filmland,
Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors,
Miskatonic University,
Hardboiled Cthulhu,
Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos (Lin Carter)

i had no idea they were coming. Most amazing gift ever. And I've read a few before but don't own any of them, so it was perfect! Even stuff like Cthulhu 2000 which I didn't especially like, I am happy to have around for reference!

[Vulpine]

Ahh, unexpected books...one of the great joys in life.

[Ruth - CthulhuChick]

I got so excited that I went and bought a bookshelf and assembled it.

But now all my weird books have a home. CAS & HPL have their own shelves. Everything else is sorted by era or type (bottom shelf is comics, RPG, etc, second-to-bottom is non-fic).

[Vulpine]

And thus it begins, before you know it you'll have a Lovecraft room...

[Bob Lovecraft]

Damn, Ruth, talk about lucking out. I guess the stars were right for you.

Bob (so jealous )

[Ruth - CthulhuChick]

And thus it begins, before you know it you'll have a Lovecraft room...

It's in my 10-year life plan. Whenever we live in something bigger than a one-bedroom apartment. It'll be my office.

[T. Kelly Lee]

Ah! The Loved Dead.  Let us know what you think!

[Jape]

That is an excellent surprise Ruth. Though I was little disappointed you didn't list off a selection of prohibited grimoires.

In an act of ignorance the first HPL book I ever got was The Loved Dead. However if I'd come into the Mythos from the front door I may never have discovered gems like The Curse of Yig until Podcraft. Not to mention the excellent Frank C. Pape (sic?) cover illustration.

[Bob Lovecraft]

Ah! The Loved Dead.  Let us know what you think!

Don't get me started on that story/podcast. This is the one tabboo podcast and it will never be made.

Bob

[Genus Unknown]

Don't forget "The Ghost-Eater" and "Deaf, Dumb & Blind." I can't remember if they did "Ashes" or not, but if not, no great loss. Those C.M. Eddy stories are all pretty awful.

[Bob Lovecraft]

Don't forget "The Ghost-Eater" and "Deaf, Dumb & Blind." I can't remember if they did "Ashes" or not, but if not, no great loss. Those C.M. Eddy stories are all pretty awful.

Were those collaboration, too? Huh, I really need to get back to my bookshelf and check some of this tuff out.

Bob

[Clangador]

I've been wanting to read The Loved Dead for a long time. Congrats on the new books.

[Genus Unknown]

Don't forget "The Ghost-Eater" and "Deaf, Dumb & Blind." I can't remember if they did "Ashes" or not, but if not, no great loss. Those C.M. Eddy stories are all pretty awful.

Were those collaboration, too? Huh, I really need to get back to my bookshelf and check some of this tuff out.

Bob

You'd think so, but no, you really don't.

[Ruth - CthulhuChick]

I can't wait to read the C.M. Eddy & Derleth ones when I'm in the right mood. I've been reading my husband The Horror in the Museum (the actual story), which he's liking. But I'll spare him the others.

[old book]

Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos (Lin Carter)

I've wanted to read this for several years. I just got an epub version but still haven't started it. I would also like to read the Fritz Leiber and L. Sprague de Camp biographies. The Eddy stuff is pretty awful, Bob.