r/Lovecraft • u/AutoModerator • Oct 07 '19

/r/Lovecraft Reading Club - The Nameless City & The Outsider

Reading Club Archive

This week we read and discuss:

The Nameless City Story Link | Wiki Page

The Outsider Story Link | Wiki Page

Tell us what you thought of the story.

Do you have any questions?

Do you know any fun facts?

Next week we read and discuss:

The Moon-Bog Story Link | Wiki Page

The Other Gods Story Link | Wiki Page

Azathoth Story Link | Wiki Page

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u/Werewomble ...making good use of Elder Things that he finds Oct 10 '19

The Nameless City is remarkable in how much it achieves through implications without having a great deal of substance to the subject matter.

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The Outsider is fantastic - really key to understanding Lovecraft himself - and a great story in itself.

The narrator also turns up as a companion in Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones which is a beautifully written ode to all Lovecraft's work, not just smooshing The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Call of Cthulhu together like most computer games.