Favorite Weird Tales (Lovecraft & others)

[ken-do-nim]

Since we are playing a game based on weird tales from the late 1800s and early 1900s focused on Lovecraft's, I think it is appropriate to have a thread devoted to that literature.

My favorite weird tales authors are Lovecraft (obviously), Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, A. J. Merritt, and William Hope Hodgson. Other authors I've read at least one work of that qualifies in this category are Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, George MacDonald, Algernon Blackwood, Oliver Onions, and Oscar Wilde (Dorian Gray).

Probably my favorite Lovecraft story is his full-length effort The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and the "campaign world" that the story showcases will feature prominently in ours. You can find it online here http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lo ... erward.htm. One of the few stories to feature what spell-casting actually sounds like ...

Y'AI 'NG'NGAH, YOG-SOTHOTH H'EE-L'GEB F'AI THRODOG UAAAH!

(which, given the events of the story and translated to D&D, is conjure fire elemental)