Literary Inspiration

I've been visiting the BBQ Pit at the Straight Dope for a few months. Yesterday evening I came across this thread. Now, the BBQ Pit is a place for people to rant and rave about stuff and in this case, a guy was ranting about his creepy neighbor who destroyed some of his stuff. This neighbor happened to be a fundie Christian who took objection to the poster's H.P. Lovecraft bumper stickers and destroyed them. A petty and stupid act, which partially explains why some people, myself included, look at fundie Christians with such disdain. Unfortunately, it seems like much of the Christians in this country are starting to lean more fundamentalist, but that's a depressing decussion for another time.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I decided to check out H.P. Lovecraft. After a thrilling adventure in the library which required the intervention of "Carl*" I managed to located a couple of books of short stories. I'm not sure if I'll like this stuff, but I try to keep my reading balanced and I haven't read much early nineteenth century horror. If I don't like it, well, no loss.

*Why is it that in Olin library PS3523 does not follow PS352_? My friend helpfully pointed out that one section (American plays and poetry) had four digits and the other (early American literature) three. Of course, since each section had four digits, I was left wondering what the hell was going on. But Carl straightened it all out, leaving me feeling confused and vaguely stupid. But, as we all know, this is a fairly common occurance and not of any particular significance.