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Hi.You seem like a wery educated person.Id sugest "The thing from the Lake" by Eleanor M. Ingram and "The Place Called Dagon" by Herbert S. Gorman-very lovecraftian.Merritt is also wery good-and you MUST read the King in Yellow (book),the Maker of Moons and the Carpet of Belshazar.Even Kipling's "The mark of the beast" is wonderfull,even if the guy ends good.And "Lukundoo" by Edward Luccas White and Irvin S. Cobb's "Fishead"-basicly everything Lovecraft recomends in "supernatural horror in literature".
weird thing is,though,modern weird stories seem to IMITATE Lovecraft/other such authors,while puting them in new setings,wery alien (in the original sense of the word) to them.A good example about it is "Broadalbin" by John Scott Tynes from the "Rehersals for oblivion" king in yellow pastiches.Its good,but it seems to near a plain golden age sci-fi story in that it kinda,well,it doesnt evoke terror,now the chill and fascination every sensitive person feels when reading Chambers' original King in yellow stories.Its kinda plain and there isnt any real horror in it,nor any real alusions.
That colection has stories which are good,though "Cat with the hand of a child" by Mark McLaughlin seems like a fanfiction,and not a REALY good one.
"Ambrose" doesnt use the card of desolation and despair,of distant memories of an actual life long forgoten through aeons,as good as it could and leaves a bitter aftertaste,also the presence of the robot child seems a litle useless and one term.
What I mean is-in Chambers' stories,the play is WERY loosely mentioned and is something mystic,just beyond the course of reality.I think there are THREE stories detailing the play in that colection.Also,instead of at least explaining a handfull of the allusions made my Chambers,they explain all,wery one-sidedly.Not one was adopted by another author.Id like if writers of theese things could continue what Lovecraft and his colleagues did-contribute to each others stories,instead of constantly re-interpretating one and the same thing.
Having things like descriptions of sex in a weird fiction story just seems wrong and missing the point.
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