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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.

  • Treacle Walker was excellent. Really enjoyed it, short, but wonderful. So interestingly written.

    Any other recommendations of his, or similar?

    House on the Borderland up next, though I got a weird version from WoB that looks more like a text book haha.

  • Any other recommendations of his, or similar?

    I'm still catching up with more recent Alan Garner work, but have you ever read anything by Robert Holdstock? Start with Mythago Wood. If you like it, there's more.

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