Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-39.42.71.48-20140706212805/@comment-397235-20140709004522

Never call up that which you cannot put down is my personal mantra.

I'd recommend "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Dunwhich Horror," "The Whisperer in Darkness," and "The Dreams in the Witch House." And, of course, you can't not mention "The Call of Cthulhu" which is one of the most unique horror stories I've ever read.

The whole "not showing the monster" thing works to varying degress based on the story. For example, in "The Cold" the "monster" saves the main character and is a nice guy, but because people expect horror from Lovecraft he decides it needs to be scary. His stuff's not especially scary to me, but man it's disturbing. Also, "The Color out of Space."