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The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson is an absolute classic of that Lovecraft style if you've never read it? It's a real trip (ever so slightly ruined by old fashioned prose) I think I've read it at least four times, do it in a day 👌
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Seconding EB's recommendation for WHH's House on the Borderland for this kind of nonsense and also throwing in Arthur Machen - try The Great God Pan. M.R James wrote a lot of great stuff about stuffed-shirt academics digging up scary artifacts and regretting it when eldritch horrors come for them.
It's not quite 'Lovecraft style', but I think you might enjoy Alan Garner's stuff. His most recent book is Treacle Walker - it's short and pacey and I think if you gave it a go, you'd see why I thought of it all the same - it takes the Welsh countryside and defamiliarises it into something frightening. Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley might interest you too.
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Just finished a book called 'The Leviathon', loosely about witches and things, set into the 1600's. Picked it up thinking it was something else (Essex serpent). Anyway, really enjoyed it and it's slowly building 'dread'. Not my usual genre, but really enjoyed it.
I've been informed this is 'Lovecraft style', so I've picked up Call of Cthulu and other stories on give that a read.
Anyone get any recommendations on this theme?