I just read the original H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu story for the first time. I didn't realize it was just a longish short story (11k words). It is really good, modulo lurid 1920s race anxieties. I can see why it's been so influential. hplovecraft.com/writings/texts
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If you want absolute chills, try The Rats In The Walls (short story, I don’t think the racism figured)
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It did in one very specific way: the name of the main character's cat.
Also in a vaguer, bloodline-fixated kind of way, but that's pretty modest racism by Lovecraft standards lol
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Back when I was commuting by car in the DC area, I was listening to and going through the stories episode by episode. The Colour Out of Space is the one he said met his own standard, of something totally other.
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Other fun shorter ones: The Haunter of the Dark, The Rats in the Walls (this one is also Very Problematic), The Whisperer in Darkness
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His Nyarlathotep was based loosely on Nikola Tesla’s travelling electricity demos too



