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Working my way through the collected works of HP Lovecraft.  Really cool stuff, especially considering how much his work influenced future sci-fi/horror/fantasy writers.  Can be a bit of a slog at some points, since some of his stories were written solely for payments from magazines, but even Lovecraft himself doesn't like those ones.  Overall, super fun.

Ah, the pay per word era. I believe Dickens and/or Doyle had the same problem.

I really enjoy Lovecraft's short stories. Some are extremely abstract, which I found off-putting when I was younger. I think it makes for a more interesting read now.

I enjoy that a lot of the horror isn't from monsters jumping out and scaring you or highly graphic detailed violence (a lot of the violence happens 'off-screen' or read from newspapers or stuff like that), but it's more about the breakdown of the human mind when it encounters something far bigger and older than itself.  Neat stuff.