Was going to pop up to recommend exactly this, because it's short and online and self-contained and very good. And easier to recommend than the entire Laundry Files.
If you have any love for Jack Kerouac, I really enjoyed Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas. [Link, it's under creative commons so should be available in other formats too https://archive.org/details/MoveUnderGround ] It's a surprisingly inspired mashup pastiche of Kerouac and Lovecraft, and honestly made me appreciate both of the original authors more.
Which (if any) of Lovecraft's stories do you recommend? I've only read a handful, I think.
I also read Matt Ruff's <i>Lovecraft Country</i>, which I enjoyed.
Incidentally, I would guess that the pinkish moon detail from Neil Gaiman was borrowed from Gene Wolfe, an older writer that Gaiman was friends with and admired (and collaborated with, at least once). In Wolfe's masterpiece Book of the New Sun, the moonlight is greenish; over the course of the book you realize that, at some point in the distant past, the moon was terraformed and is now forested. BTW, if you haven't read Wolfe I recommend him quite highly.
What do you think of Charlie Stross' mix of spy thriller and Lovecraftian horror?
I really like A Colder War http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
Was going to pop up to recommend exactly this, because it's short and online and self-contained and very good. And easier to recommend than the entire Laundry Files.
If you have any love for Jack Kerouac, I really enjoyed Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas. [Link, it's under creative commons so should be available in other formats too https://archive.org/details/MoveUnderGround ] It's a surprisingly inspired mashup pastiche of Kerouac and Lovecraft, and honestly made me appreciate both of the original authors more.
Which (if any) of Lovecraft's stories do you recommend? I've only read a handful, I think.
I also read Matt Ruff's <i>Lovecraft Country</i>, which I enjoyed.
Incidentally, I would guess that the pinkish moon detail from Neil Gaiman was borrowed from Gene Wolfe, an older writer that Gaiman was friends with and admired (and collaborated with, at least once). In Wolfe's masterpiece Book of the New Sun, the moonlight is greenish; over the course of the book you realize that, at some point in the distant past, the moon was terraformed and is now forested. BTW, if you haven't read Wolfe I recommend him quite highly.