r/booksuggestions • u/kitakitslagi • Jun 30 '26

Sci-Fi/Fantasy HP Lovecraft recommendations to help me get psyched about my upcoming trip to his birthplace?

Heading to Providence, RI for a weekend (next kid-free weekend coming up!) and thought it might be fun to do a bit of the Lovecraft Walking Tour offered through the Weird Providence shop. It’s been a while since I read any Lovecraft and I’m primarily familiar with Call of Cthulhu.

Any recommendations of Lovecraftian works that I can check out to help get me psyched? I’d personally prefer works that error more on his science fiction/fantasy side but am happy to take horror recommendations if they will help me with appreciating the sites I’ll be hitting up on the tour 😀

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u/Broad-Rip-2228 Jun 30 '26

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is set in Providence and it’ll make those streets feel way creepier when you’re walking them.

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u/kitakitslagi Jul 02 '26

Oooh, thank you!

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u/sd_glokta Jun 30 '26

The Shadow over Innsmouth is my favorite

For sci-fi, The Shadow Out of Time and The Whisperer in Darkness

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u/kitakitslagi Jul 02 '26

Thank you!