Lovecraft, if you never gave Lovecraft a read it's worth listening to by narration, a few people on youtube have done chunks of his catalogue and there are older lower quality readings by groups like librivox.
It's a trip on the first read through of most of the major Lovecraft works, you find the science fiction element is way ahead of it's time and that he accurately picked the winning theories on just about everything decades before debates were settled, but also how much of our contemporary western canon is directly inspired by lovecraft; it's genuinely staggering how much of modern fiction, in all mediums, owes him at least some credit.
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