Maybe reading all of "When the Wind Blows" will make it less traumatising? Sort of confronting fear, perhaps. It can work. :)
Maybe, although I've a feeling I'm not going to be able to turn off the lights at night for a looong time.
HP Lovecraft is brilliant. Seriously, read him. Some sweet darling uploaded all this works to the internet here for free: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
I would recc 'The Colour Out of Space' for sheer amazing coolness and bloody scaryness, although it might be a bit much. 'The Cats of Ulthar' is not too scary, rather creepy, and quite short, so it's a good one to start off on. 'The Silver Key' was sacry simply because Lovecraft seemed to have taken me for inspiration for that one ;) 'The Call of Cthulhu' is pretty good, if a bit long and the ending a bit anti-climatic.
Oh, and of course, to link both the topics together, we have 'A Colder War', which wasn't written by Lovecraft (bless the man, he encouraged people write fanfics for his world), but is a nasty, scary and freaky idea of what the cold war might have been like if the governments had had access to Lovecraftian technology. It was one of the first things I read, and I was hooked. 'A Colder War' is here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
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Date: 2006-09-05 11:20 pm (UTC)Maybe, although I've a feeling I'm not going to be able to turn off the lights at night for a looong time.
HP Lovecraft is brilliant. Seriously, read him. Some sweet darling uploaded all this works to the internet here for free: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
I would recc 'The Colour Out of Space' for sheer amazing coolness and bloody scaryness, although it might be a bit much. 'The Cats of Ulthar' is not too scary, rather creepy, and quite short, so it's a good one to start off on. 'The Silver Key' was sacry simply because Lovecraft seemed to have taken me for inspiration for that one ;)
'The Call of Cthulhu' is pretty good, if a bit long and the ending a bit anti-climatic.
Oh, and of course, to link both the topics together, we have 'A Colder War', which wasn't written by Lovecraft (bless the man, he encouraged people write fanfics for his world), but is a nasty, scary and freaky idea of what the cold war might have been like if the governments had had access to Lovecraftian technology. It was one of the first things I read, and I was hooked.
'A Colder War' is here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
Sleep well.